 The mountain wolf and wild-cat stole To banquet on the dead ; — Nor how, when strangers found his bones, They dressed the hasty bier, And marked his grave with nameless stones, Unmoistened by a tear. But long they looked, and feared, and wept, Within...  The New Monthly Magazine - Seite 2961853Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 Seiten
...They dressed the hasty bier ; And marked his grave with nameless stones Unmoistened by a tear. But how long they looked, and feared, and wept, Within his...and started as they slept, For joy that he was come ! So long they looked, but never spied His welcome step again ; — Nor knew the fearful death he died,... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1867 - 308 Seiten
...the earth and sea give up their dead — Bat long they looked , and feared , and wept , Within bis distant home, And dreamed, and started as they slept, For joy that he was come. Alas, how many a household, how many a heart, has borne that utterly irremediable and interminable... | |
 | 1872 - 184 Seiten
...bones, They dressed the hasty bier, And marked his grave with nameless stones, Unmoistened by a tear. 30 But long they looked, and feared, and wept, Within...and started as they slept, For joy that he was come. Long, long they looked — but never spied His welcome step again, Nor knew the fearful death he died,... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1872 - 200 Seiten
...bones, They dressed the hasty bier, And marked his grave with nameless stones, Unmoistened by a tear. But long they looked, and feared, and wept, Within...and started as they slept, For joy that he was come. Long, long they looked — but never spied His welcome step again, Nor knew the fearful death he died,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1872 - 322 Seiten
...strangers found his bones, They dressed the hasty bier, And marked his grave with nameless stones, But long they looked, and feared, and wept, "Within...and started as they slept, For joy that he was come. So long they looked — but never spied Ills welcome step again, Xor knew the fearful death he died... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 492 Seiten
...bones, They dressed the hasty bier, And marked his grave with nameless stones, Unmoistened by a tear. But long they looked, and feared, and wept, Within...and started as they slept, For joy that he was come. Long, long they looked — but never spied His welcome step again, Nor knew the fearful death he died... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 Seiten
...bones, They dressed the hasty bier, And marked his grave with nameless stones, Unmoistened by a tear. But long they looked, and feared, and wept, Within...and started as they slept, For joy that he was come. So long they looked; but never spied His welcome step again, Nor knew the fearful death he died Far... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 528 Seiten
...bones, They dressed the hasty bier, And marked his grave with nameless stones, Unmoistened by a tear. But long they looked, and feared, and wept, Within...distant home ; And dreamed, and started as they slept, f For joy that he was come. Long, long they looked— but never spied •His welcome step again, ,... | |
 | 1880 - 404 Seiten
...bones, They dressed the hasty bier, Aud marked his grave with nauR-k-ss stones, Unmoistened by a tear, But long they looked, and feared, and wept, Within...and started as they slept, For joy that he was come. So long they looked — but never spied His welcome step again, Nor knew the fearful death he died... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 932 Seiten
...HYPOCHONDRIAC. 403 Nor how, when round the frosty pole, The northern dawn was red, The mountain-wolf and wild-cat stole To banquet on the dead ; But long...and started as they slept, For joy that he was come. Nor how, when strangers found his bones, They dressed the hasty bier, And marked his grave with nameless... | |
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