 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...wandered Into that dreary wilderness, an) Md dial of hunger, or been lost In some of Its dreadful monws. " e wind, And as the night grew drearer, Adown the glen rode armed men, The she 's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...from Norfolk, and the lake in the middle of it (about seven miles long) is called Drummond's Pond. " 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 firefly lamp, She paddles her... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...from Norfolk, and the lake in the middle of it (about seven miles long) is called Drummond's Pond " 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 firefly lamp, She paddles her... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - 1877 - 346 pages
...was silly, but I could not help it then. And this kept going through and through my mind : ' They've made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true.' " "You poor little Kitty ! " " O, thai was only sentimental," said Kate, surveying her past self loftily... | |
 | Thomas Moore, John Francis Waller - Irish poetry - 1879 - 572 pages
...dreadful morasses." — Anon. '• Lu Poesie a ses monstres comme la nature," — D'ALi:Mm:itT. "TnEY made her a grave, too cold and damp For a soul so...Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where, all night long, by a fire -fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. "And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1879 - 294 pages
...dreadful morasses. "fPHEY made her a grave, too cold and damp J- For a soul so warm and true: And she 's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where, all night long, by a firefly lamp, She paddles her white cauoe. "And her firefly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear; Long and loving our... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 584 pages
...But merrier were they in DunfermWhen all the bells were ringing. SCOTT. THE LAKE OP THE DISMAL SWAMP. "THEY made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul...paddles her white canoe. And her firefly lamp I soon sltall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear; Long and loving our life shall be, And I'll hide the... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - English language - 1880 - 280 pages
...17. Know then this truth, enough for man to know — Virtue alone is happiness below. — Pope. 18. They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true. — Moore. 19. There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To deck the turf that wraps their clay. — Collins.... | |
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