And, long since then, of bloody men Whose deeds tradition saves; Of lonely folk cut off unseen, And hid in sudden graves ; Of horrid stabs, in groves forlorn, And murders done in caves ; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod... Prose and Verse - Страница 23по Thomas Hood - 1845Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| 1853 - 880 страници
...exhausted in describing it, and art and poetry have made it a favorite, because so terrible, a subject. He told how murderers walked the earth Beneath the...their eyes And flames about their brain; For blood hud left upon their souls Its everlasting stain. Let us look at an instance of the power of remorse... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 страници
...done in caves ; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod, — Ay, how the ghastly hand will point, To show the burial clod ; And unknown...Are seen in dreams from God ! He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames before... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 страници
...And murders done in caves ; * And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod, — Ay, how the ghostly hand will point To show the burial...Are seen in dreams from God! He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about... | |
| Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 страници
...returned, he fled. James Montgomery. The murderer has no past But one eternal present. TN Talfnurd. He told how murderers walked the earth Beneath the...their eyes, And flames about their brain: For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain! Thomas Hood* Lo, on the everlasting stone engraved,... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 424 страници
...sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod,— Aye, how the ghostly hand will point To shew the burial clod ; And unknown facts of guilty acts...Are seen in dreams from God ! He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 650 страници
...forlorn, And murders done in caves ; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod — Ay, how the ghostly hand will point To show the burial...how murderers walked the earth Beneath the curse of C'aiu — With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about their brain : For blood has left... | |
| George Frederick Pardon - 1856 - 250 страници
...back again ; And down he sat beside the lad, And talk'd with him of Cain. He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain,— With crimson...their eyes, And flames about their brain : For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain! " And well/' quoth he, " I know, for truth, Their... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 страници
...And murders done in caves ; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod, — Ay, how the ghostly hand will point To show the burial...Are seen in dreams from God ! He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1857 - 420 страници
...sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod, — Aye, how the ghostly hand will point To shew the burial clod ; And unknown facts of guilty acts...Are seen in dreams from God ! He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about... | |
| 1858 - 664 страници
...stabs in groves forlorn, And murders done in caves. And how the spirits of injured men Shriek upward from the sod — And how the ghostly hand will point...facts of guilty acts, Are seen in dreams from God. 40 He told how murderers walked the earth Beneath the curse of Cain — With crimson clouds before... | |
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