| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 144 pages
...Still in rude armour drest, Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not in Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou...manifold, No Skald in song has told, No Saga taught thee ! Take heed, that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse ! For... | |
| United States - 1842 - 498 pages
...Still in rude armour drest, Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not iu Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou...Came a dull voice of woe From the heart's chamber. This is a noble use made of the skeleton, to put such poetic life in him. He was a " Viking old !"... | |
| United States - 1842 - 620 pages
...Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou haunt me?" Then, from those cavernous eyes Pale Hashes seemed to rise, As when the Northern skies Gleam in...water's flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of wo From the heart's chamber. To the solemn address of the bard, the spectral representative of Scandinavian... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...Still in rude armour drest, Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not in Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou...manifold, No Skald in song has told, No Saga taught thee ! Take heed, that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse ! For... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...Still in rude armour drest, Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not in Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou...manifold, No Skald in song has told, No Saga taught thee ! Take heed, that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse ! For... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...Still in rude armour clrcst, Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not in Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou...flashes seemed to rise, As when the Northern skies i Gleam in December ; And, like the water's flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of wo From... | |
| Charles Timothy Brooks - America - 1851 - 110 pages
...palms Stretched, as if asking alms," Wliy dost thou haunt me ! ' ' Then, from those cavernous eye* Vale flashes seemed to rise. As when the Northern skies...manifold, No Skald in song has told,. No Saga taught thee '.. Take heed, that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse ?... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...Still in rude armour drest, Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not in eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou...flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of woe " I was a Viking old ! My deeds, though manifold, No Skald in song has told, No Saga taught thee !... | |
| Charles Timothy Brooks - America - 1851 - 112 pages
...to rise, As when the Northern skies Gleam in December ; And, like the water's flow Under Decembers snow, Came a dull voice of woe From the heart's chamber....manifold, No Skald in song has told, No Saga taught thee ! Take heed, that in thy verse • Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse... | |
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