 | John Hill Wheeler - North Carolina - 1851 - 876 pages
...the first Governor of North Carolina, has been enshrined in the poetic numbers of Thomas Moore : " Where all night long, by a fire-fly lamp,- . She paddles her white canoe."* Its canal connecting the waters of Virginia and North Carolina, is 22 miles long, 40 to 60 feet wide,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1853 - 398 pages
...of its dreadful morasses." — Anon. " La Poesie a ses moustres comme la nature." — D'ALBMBERT. " THEY made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul...by a fire-fly lamp, " She paddles her white canoe. * The Great Dismal Swamp is ten or twelve miles distant from Norfolk, and the Lake in the middle of... | |
 | Charles Olliffe - Canada - 1853 - 414 pages
...lui suggéra le sujet de l'une de ses plus charmantes ballades, celle qui a pour première strophe : They made her a grave, too cold and damp For a soul so warm and tme; And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where, ail night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1853 - 790 pages
...Its dreadful morasses." — Лаоя. " La Poésie a fies monstres comme la nature." — D'AuiBEET. " THEY made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul • warm and true ; 4 Norfolk, it must be owned, presents an unfavorable rçte men of America. The... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Ballads, English - 1856 - 296 pages
...of its dreadful morasses." — Anon, " La Po4sie a ses monsUes comme In nature." D'ALEMSERT. "TitUT made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul SO warm and true ; " And she 's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp,s " Where, all night lonRt by a fire-fly lamp, s' She paddles... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1856 - 436 pages
...too cold and damp " For a soul so warm and true ; "And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp,t " Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, " She paddles her white canoe. * Bermuda. " And her fire-fly .lamp I soon shall see, " And her paddle I soon shall hear ; " Long and... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Ireland - 1857 - 434 pages
...unfurl'd And now, like a star beyond evening's cold dew, A BALLAD. THE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP. "TnFt made her a grave, too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true ; And she 's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, '•Vlinre, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish poetry - 1858 - 364 pages
...BALLAD. THE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP. WRITTEN AT NORFOLK, IN VIRGINIA. HEY made her a grave, too eold and damp For a soul so warm and true ; And she's gone...night long, by a fire-fly lamp. She paddles her white eanoe. " And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear : Long and loving... | |
 | Political ballads and songs - 1858 - 84 pages
...too cold and damp She paddles her light canoe. And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see ; For a heart so warm and true ; And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where all nighl long, by the fire-fly lamp, Her paddle I soon shall hear ! Long and loving our life shall be... | |
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THEY made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul so warm and true ; " And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp *, " Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, 
