 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 his distant home ; And dreamed, and started...  The North American Review - Page 4331826Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...dreamed, and started as they slept, For joy that he was come. So long they looked— but never spied Hit welcome step again. Nor knew the fearful death he died Far down that narrow glen. B. THE LtJHATIC GIRL. Most beautiful, mo<t gentle ! Yet how lost To all that gladdens tin- fair earth... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 412 pages
...they slept. For joy that he was come. So long they looked— but never spied His welcome step ajiain. Nor knew the fearful death he died Far down that narrow glen. B. The aspiring lark up from the reedy river Mounted, on cheerful pinion ; and >he sat Casting smooth... | |
 | 1826 - 518 pages
...The murdered traveller's bones were found, Far down a narrow glen. 1826.] Miscellaneous Poems. 435 The fragrant birch, above him, hung Her tassels in...fragrant birch, above him, hung Her tassels in the sky ; ' which occur in the second stanza. Such minute and inimitable beauties are scattered over every... | |
 | American poetry - 1826 - 192 pages
...beset. Nor how when round the frosty pole The northern dawn was red, The mountain wolf and wild-cat stole To banquet on the dead. Nor how, when strangers...the fearful death he died Far down that narrow glen. THE OLD MAN'S FUNERAL. I saw an aged man upon his bier, His hair was thin and white, and on his brow... | |
 | American poetry - 1826 - 192 pages
...distant home; And dreamed, 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 down that narrow glen. THE OLD MAN'S FUNERAL. I saw an aged man upon his bier, His hair was thin and white, and on his brow... | |
 | 1829 - 436 pages
...distant home ; And dream'd, and started as they slept, For joy that he was come. So long they look'd — but never spied His welcome step again, Nor knew the fearful death he died Far down that narrow glen. AN INDIAN STORY. I KNOW where the timid fawn abides In the depths of the shaded dell, Where the leaves... | |
 | Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 432 pages
...home ; And dream'd, and started as they slept, For joy that he was come. So long they look'd—but never spied His welcome step again, Nor knew the fearful death he died AN INDIAN STORY. I KNOW where the timid fawn abides In the depths of the shaded dell, Where the leaves... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1833 - 180 pages
...; — Nor how, when round the frosty pole The northern dawn was red, The mountain wolf and wild-cat stole To banquet on the dead ; — Nor how, when strangers...fearful death he died, Far down that narrow glen. LESSON XIX. On Intellectual Taste. — JANE TAYLOR. the primary objects of their regard ; and that... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1833 - 274 pages
...beset. Nor how when round the frosty pole The northern dawn was red, The mountain wolf and wild-cat stole To banquet on the dead. Nor how, when strangers...the fearful death he died Far down that narrow glen. LESSON ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHTH. Father and Son. Among the cases of suffering by the wreck, in... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 460 pages
...distant home ; And dream 'd and started as they slept, For joy that he was come. So long they look'd— but never spied His welcome step again, Nor knew the fearful death he died, Far down that narrow g\vm. . THE DISAPPOINTED POLITICIAN.* BY MRS MOODIE. " SHOULD you like to be a queen, Christina?" said... | |
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