 | Louise Chandler Moulton - American literature - 1859 - 440 pages
...rest crowned with the blessings of those ready to perish. " Her works they shall follow her." Wtgjjt Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I feared him all the more For lying there so still. HOOD. Oh ! thou dead And everlasting witness ! whose... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...have his gold ! " Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife ; And then the deed was done : There was nothing lying at my feet But lifeless flesh and bone ! " Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, O That could not do me ill... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1861 - 394 pages
...have his gold ! " Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife,-— And then the deed was done : There was nothing lying at rny foot But lifeless flesh and bone ! " Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone. That could not do me... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1862 - 522 pages
...have his gold ! " Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, — And then the deed was done...flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I feared him all the more, For lying there so still : There was a manhood in his look, That murder could... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...have his gold ! ' Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, And then the deed was done : There was nothing lying at my feet, But lifeless flesh and bone ! ' Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pages
...have his gold ! ' " Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, — And then the deed was done : There was nothing lying at my feet But lifeless flesh and bone. " I took the ghastly body up, And cast it hi a stream, — A sluggish... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1864 - 490 pages
...have his gold ! " Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, — And then the deed was done...flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I feared him all the more, For lying there so still : There was a manhood in his look, That murder could... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1864 - 522 pages
...stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, — And then the deed was dono : There was nothing lying at my foot But lifeless flesh...flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I feared him all the more, For lying there so still : There was a manhood in his look, That murder could... | |
 | John Tillotson - Battles - 1865 - 508 pages
...of Orange ? " Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not work them ill, And yet they feared him all the more, For lying there so still : There was a manhood in his look, Which murder could not kill.'' The spirit of the murdered man still animated the "poor people," for... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...man shall die, " Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with, a hasty knife — And then the deed was done...and bone, That could not do. me ill ;•' And yet I feared him alt the more, For lying there so still : There was a manhood in his look, That murder could... | |
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One that had never done me wrong, A feeble man and old: I led him to a lonely field; The moon shone clear and cold: Now here, said I, this man shall die, And I will have his gold! 
