 Then down I cast me on my face, And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep : Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep.  Prose and Verse - Page 26by Thomas Hood - 1845Full view - About this book
 | 1888 - 210 pages
...the murdered man ! " And all that day I read in school, But my thought was otherwhere ; As soon as the mid-day task was done, In secret I was there,...had swept the leaves, And still the corse was bare ! " O God ! that horrid, horrid dream Besets me now awake ! Again — again, with dizzy brain, The... | |
 | George Riddle - Readers - 1888 - 218 pages
...the murdered man ! " And all that day I read in school, But my thought was otherwhere ; As soon as the mid-day task was done, In secret I was there,...had swept the leaves, And still the corse was bare ! " O God ! that horrid, horrid dream Besets me now awake ! Again — again, with dizzy brain, And... | |
 | Byron Wesley King - Elocution - 1889 - 398 pages
...hid the murdered man ; "And all that day I read in school, But my thought was otherwhere ; As soon as the midday task was done, In secret I was there ; And a mighty wind had swept the leaves, " Then down I cast me on my face, And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1890 - 976 pages
...the murdered man I " And all that day I read in school, But my thought was other where ; As soon as the mid-day task was done, In secret I was there — And a mighty wind had swept the leave-, And still the corse was bare ! " Then down I cast me on my face, And first began to weep, For... | |
 | John McNeill - Presbyterian Church - 1890 - 440 pages
...; and again it came back, and "I saw the dead in the river's bed, For the faithless stream was dry. Then down I cast me on my face, And first began to cry. For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep, On land or sea, though it should... | |
 | John McNeill - Presbyterian Church - 1890 - 428 pages
...and again it came back, and " I saw the dead in the river's bed, For the faithless stream was dry. Then down I cast me on my face, And first began to cry. For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep, On land or sea, though it should... | |
 | Robert Ford - 1892 - 144 pages
...the murdered man ! " And all that day I read in school, But my thought was other where ! As soon as the midday task was done, In secret I was there : And a mighty wind had swept the leaves, " Then down I cast me on my face, And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one, That... | |
 | William Winter - England - 1892 - 352 pages
...are linked with the shedding of blood. Hence that strong line in Tom Hood's poem of Euyene Aram — " And a mighty wind had swept the leaves, And still the corse was bare." There are many haunted spots in Warwickshire. The benighted peasant never lingers on Ganerslie Heath... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 462 pages
...the murder'd man ! "And all that day I read in school, But my thought was other where ; As soon as the mid-day task was done, In secret I was there :...had swept the leaves, And still the corse was bare I " Then down I cast me on my faoe, And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - Ballads - 1894 - 338 pages
...the murdered man ! " And all that day I read in school, But my thought was other-where ; As soon as the mid-day task was done, In secret I was there :...sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep. f " So wills the fierce avenging Sprite, Till blood for blood atones ! Ay, though he's buried in a... | |
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