 | New York Public Library - Classified catalogs - 1917 - 578 pages
...ne'er so foul be the weather. Hood, Thomas. The Haunted House. O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear A sense of mystery the spirit daunted And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, "The place is Haunted!" Houghton, George. The Handsel Ring. (In Stedman's American Anthology.)... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1920 - 802 pages
...foot upon that threshold fell, To enter or to issue. 140 O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! Howbeit, the door I pushed — or so> I dream 'd — Which slowly,... | |
 | Louis Tracy - 1923 - 326 pages
...House.' You get the precise stage effect in the lines : — O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted. It is singularly consoling to find your worst suspicions confirmed... | |
 | Edwin Markham - American poetry - 1927 - 402 pages
...never foot upon that threshold fell, To enter or to issue. O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted! Howbeit, the door I pushed — or so I dreamed — Which slowly,... | |
 | World War, 1914-1918 - 1928 - 700 pages
...the building on a carpet : the eeriness of an empty house, O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear A sense of mystery the spirit daunted And said as plain as whisper in the ear The place is haunted — this would help to invest the threshold as a place where evil spirits... | |
 | Stanton Arthur Coblentz - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1982 - 220 pages
...Prince, Noted Witnesses, pp. 148^*9. IO The Ghost in the House For over all there hung a cloud of fear; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted! These lines, from Thomas Hood's long poem "The Haunted House," utter... | |
 | Roslynn Doris Haynes - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 406 pages
...pardy from the physical peculiarities of the region itself. 'On all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery, the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, This region's haunted.'"" Giles records that he was only too glad to leave the place to... | |
 | Graham K. Dugdale - Sports & Recreation - 1998 - 178 pages
...Wyatt - Retired Chief Ranger of the Lake District Prologue O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted. Thomas Hood, The Haunted House Once more, readers are invited to... | |
 | Michael E. Banasik - History - 2003 - 258 pages
...own form magnified into marvelous and fearful proportions. "O'er all these hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted. And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." And thus they invested the guerrillas on the Blue Hills with supernatural... | |
 | Donald T. Blume - Literary Collections - 2004 - 426 pages
...cheek made you cover your eyes to shut out the apparition.5 "O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear: The place is haunted." In short, then, as in the day of Dennis Kearney and now, the site... | |
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O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted! 
