| English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...and ropy slime,} Lets fall a supernumerary horror, And only serves to make thy night more irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant ! that loves to dwell 'Midst sculls and coffins, epitaphs, and worms ; Where light-heel'd ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath... | |
| Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...and ropy slim«, Lets fall a supernumerary horror, And only serves to make the night more irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst sculls and coffins, epitaphs and worms ; Where light heel'd ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the... | |
| 1806 - 184 pages
...damps, and ropy slime, Lets fall a supernumerary horror, And only serves to make thy night more irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant ! that loves to dwell 'Midst sculls and coffins, epitaphs and worms ; Where light-heel'd ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...and ropy slime,) Lets fall a supernumerary horror, And only serves to make thy night more irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant ! that loves to dwell 'Midst sculls and coffins, epitaphs and worms ; Where light-heel'd ghosts, and visionary shades. Beneath the... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...slime) Lets fall a supernumerary horror, VOL. in. M And only serves to make thy night more irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant? that toves 'to dwell Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs, and worms, Where light-heel'd ghosts, and visionary... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 682 pages
...and ropy sliuic,) LeU fall a. supernumerary horrour, And only serves to make thy night more irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst sculls and coffins, epitaphs and worms: Where light-heel'd ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...damps, and ropy slime;) *fe fall a supernumerary horror And only serves to make thy night more irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell Midst sculls and coffins, epitaphs and worms; Where light-heel'd ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 680 pages
...lets fall a supernumerary horrour, And only serves to make thy night more irksome. Well do I know tbee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst sculls and coffins, epitaphs and worms: Where light-heel'd ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the... | |
| English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...damps and ropy slimej Lets fall a supernumerary horror, And only serves to make thy night more irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell Midst sculls and coffins, epitaphs and worms : Where light-hcel'd ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 418 pages
...damps, and ropy slime) Lets fall a supernumerary horror, And only serves to make thy night more irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless,...'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms: Where light-heel'd ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon (as fame reports) Embodied, thick,... | |
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