 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...— and so did I. I looked upon the rotting Sea, And drew my eyes away ; I looked upon the ghastly deck, And there the dead men lay. I looked to Heaven,...and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids and kept them close, Till... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...— and so did I. I looked upon the rotting Sea, And drew my eyes away ; I looked upon the ghastly deck, And there the dead men lay. I looked to Heaven,...and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids and kept them close, Till... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 334 pages
...And there the dead men lay. I look'd to Heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as...; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky The cold sweat melted &om their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they : The look with which they look'd... | |
 | England - 1834 - 918 pages
...lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; and so did I. " I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away ; I looked upon the rotting...heaven, and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gush'd, A wickt'd whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. " 1 closed my lids, and kept them... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...And there the dead men lay. I look'd to Heaven, and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as...lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses heat ; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay, like a cloud, on my weary eye, And the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1828 - 386 pages
...rotting sea, that they ATI should live, And drew my eyes away ; and so many - * , , , , , lie dead. I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead...and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 426 pages
...uPon the rotting sea, atdu,of^ And drew my eyes away; ii« dead. i looked upon the rott;ng decl£, And there the dead men lay. I looked to Heaven, and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And... | |
 | Scotland - 1834 - 896 pages
...lie/; And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived ou ; and so did JU " I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away ; I looked upon the rotting...dead men lay. " I looked to heaven, and tried to pray ; Eut or ever a piaycr had gush'd, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. " 1 closed... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1835 - 394 pages
...lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; and so did I. I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away ; I looked upon the rotting...and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry, Modern - 1836 - 170 pages
...there the dead men lay 4. I looked to heaven, and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gush't, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as...beat, For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. The cold sweat melted from their limbs,... | |
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A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. "I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky, 250 Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. 
