 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 foot But lifeless flesh and bone!  Lives of the Illustrious - Page 2281856Full view - About this book
 | 1828 - 602 pages
...flesh and bone ! 1 Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I fear'd him all the more, For lying there so still : There was...ghastly flame, — Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes ' Oh God, it made me quake to see Such tense within the slain ! But when I touch'd the lifeless clay,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1831 - 80 pages
...flesh and bone ! " Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill; And yet I fear'd him all the more, For lying there so still : There was...murder could not kill ! " And, lo! the universal air SeenVd lit with ghastly flame ; — Ten .thousand thousand dreadful eyes Were looking down in blame... | |
 | Periodicals - 1836 - 676 pages
...flc*li and bone! ' Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I fear'd him all the more. For lying there so still; There was...manhood in his. look, That murder could not kill: 70 Editors' Table. [May ' And, lo ! the universal air Seem'd lit with ghastly flame — Tea thousand... | |
 | Periodicals - 1836 - 706 pages
...lifeleng flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I fear'd him all the more, For lying there ?o still; There was a manhood in his look, That murder could not kill: 546 [May ' And, lo ! the universal air Seem'd lit with ghastly flame — Ten thousand thousand dreadful... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...flesh and bone ! " Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I fear'd him all the more, For lying there so still : There was...murder could not kill ! " And lo ! the universal air Secm'd lit with ghastly flame, — Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes Were looking down in blame :... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...That could not do me ill : And yet I fear'd him all the more, For lying there so still : There wa* a manhood in his look That murder could not kill ! " ' And, lo ! the universal air See'tied lit with ghastly flame ! Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes Were looking down in blame :... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...flesh and bone ! " Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I fear'd him all the more, For lying there so still : There was...down in blame: I took the dead man by the hand, And call'd upon his name ! " О God, it made me quake to see Such sense within the slain ! But when I touch'd... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...flesh and bone ! " 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 ; There was...murder could not kill ! . " And lo ! the universal air Seemed lit with ghastly flame — Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes Were looking down in blame ;... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...and bone ! " 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 ; There was...in his look, That murder could not kill ! " And lo I the universal air Seemed lit with ghastly flame — Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes Were looking... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...flesh and hope ; "Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I feared him amr, And grind down marble Caesars with the daft: Make tombs inscriptionless — raze each high .tun 1 " And, lo ! the universal air Seemed lit with ghastly flame ; Ten thousand thousand dreadful ere*... | |
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