 And, long since then, of bloody men Whose deeds tradition saves; Of lonely folk cut off unseen, And hid in sudden graves ; Of horrid stabs, in groves forlorn, And murders done in caves ; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod...  Prose and Verse - Page 23by Thomas Hood - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Laurel - 1879 - 438 pages
...And murders done in caves ; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod, — Ay, how the ghostly hand will point To show the burial...Are seen in dreams from God ! He told how murderers walk'd the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about... | |
 | Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore - Children's poetry, English - 1879 - 376 pages
...sod — Aye, how the ghostly hand will point To show the burial clod ; He told how murderers walk'd the earth Beneath the curse of Cain — With crimson...their eyes, And flames about their brain : For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain ! 'And well,' quoth he, ' I know, for truth, Their... | |
 | Anthony William Twyford - 1880 - 344 pages
...And murders done in caves ; And how the sprites of injur'd men Shriek upward from the sod,— Aye, how the ghostly hand will point To show the burial...Are seen in dreams from God ! He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain,— With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...And murders done in caves ; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod, — Ay, how the ghostly hand will point To show the burial...Are seen in dreams from God ! He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about... | |
 | David Munro - 1881 - 160 pages
...forlorn, And murders done in caves; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod,— Aye, how the ghostly hand will point To show the burial...Are seen in dreams from God! He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain,— With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1881 - 330 pages
...And murders done in caves ; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod, — Ay, how the ghostly hand will point To show the burial...Are seen in dreams from God ! He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...And murders done in cave»; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod, — 1 Ay, o s walk the earth, Beneath the curse of Cain, With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about... | |
 | William Brisbane Dick - Readers - 1881 - 220 pages
...unseen, And hid in sudden graves ; And how the spirits of injured men Shriek upward from the sod.— Ay, how the ghostly hand will point To show the burial...Are seen in dreams from God ! He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain,— "With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1881 - 482 pages
...And murders done in caves ; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod, — ^\ye, how the ghostly hand will point To show the burial...unknown facts of guilty acts Are seen in dreams from God I He told how murderers walk the earth I Beneath the curse of Cain — With crimson clouds before their... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 386 pages
...And murders done in caves ; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod, — Ay ! how the ghostly hand will point To show the burial...Are seen in dreams from God. He told how murderers walk'd the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, With crimson clouds before their eyes And flames about... | |
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