 | Thomas Moore - 1903 - 302 pages
...some of its dreadful morasses."—Anon. " La Poésie ases monstres comme la nature."—D'ALEMBERT. " THEY made her a grave, too cold and damp For a soul...Swamp, Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, " And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear ; Long and loving our life... | |
 | Little magazines - 1922 - 710 pages
...died of hunger, or been lost in some of its dreadful morasses." — Anon. T HEY made her a grave so cold and damp For a soul so warm and true ; And she's...Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where all night long, by a firfly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. 'And her firefly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I... | |
 | Michigan - 1903 - 722 pages
...days this stanza : "They made his grave too cold and damp >. For a heart so warm and true, And he's gone to the lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where all night long by the firefly's lamp He paddles his light canoe." Through the courtesy of Stanley E. Parkill, the writer... | |
 | Michigan Historical Commission, Michigan State Historical Society - Michigan - 1903 - 722 pages
...childhood days this stanza : "They made his grave loo cold and damp For a heart so warm and true, And he's gone to the lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where all night long by the firefly's lamp He paddles his light canoe." Through the courtesy of Stanley E. Parkill, the writer... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Authors, Irish - 1904 - 544 pages
...BALLAD. THE LAKE OP THE DISMAL SWAMP.1 " La poesie a ses monstres comme la nature." — D'ALEMBERT. " 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, She paddles... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - American poetry - 1905 - 344 pages
...OF THE DISMAL SWAMP " THEY made her 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...I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear ; Little Masterpieces of English Poetry Long and loving our life shall be, And I '11 hide the maid... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - American poetry - 1905 - 338 pages
...for slept among his ashes cold. 378 1820. John Keats. THE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP " THEY made her 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... | |
 | Mildred Beatty Pierce - Virginia - 1906 - 174 pages
...Lake Drummond, with its most unscientific basin. Moore's lines begin with a shivering suggestion : They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true ! And she's gone to the lake in the Dismal Swamp Where all night long by a fire-fly lamp She paddles her light canoe ! Norfolk has... | |
 | Thomas Fleming Day - Shipbuilding - 1909 - 472 pages
...If not, here is a chance for an attractive trip for yachtsmen and power-boat parties. "They made her grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true...long, by a firefly lamp, She paddles her white canoe." When Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, came up from the Bermudas, where he had an official position, and... | |
 | M. A. Morse - 1909 - 132 pages
...make. 46. We admired the great deeds of Howard's benevolence, and wish that all men were like him. 47. They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and pure. 48. Every man must patiently abide his time. 49. Lo, the lilies of the field! How their leaves... | |
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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, 
