They made her a grave, too cold and damp "For a soul so warm and true; "And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, "Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, "She paddles her white canoe. The Works of Thomas Moore, Esq - Page 47by Thomas Moore - 1825 - 6 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1806 - 328 pages
...or been lost in some of its dreadful morasses.1* ANOST. 1 HEY made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul so warm and true ; " And she's gone to...by a fire-fly lamp, " She paddles her white canoe. . •, * The Great Dismal Swamp is ten or twelve miles distant from Norfolk, and the Lake in the middle... | |
| Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1806 - 370 pages
...or been lost in some of its dreadful morasses." ANON. *' THEY made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul so warm and true ; " And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp1, " Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, " She paddles her white canoe. 1 The Great Dismal... | |
| United States - 1807 - 442 pages
...quite satisfied with the insertion of the first stanza. 1 " They made her a grave, too cold and damp, For a soul so warm and true ; And she's gone to the...long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. But if this should not satiate the reader, peradventure, the second stanza will be sufficient;—if... | |
| Priscilla Wakefield - Anecdotes - 1809 - 234 pages
...morasses that environ it. THE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP. « They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true ; And she's gone to the...white canoe. " And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear ; Long and loving our life shall be, And I'll hide the maid in... | |
| Thomas Condie - 1813 - 262 pages
...of hunger, or keen lost in some of its dreadful morasses. " THEY made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true ; And she's gone to the...night long, by a fire.fly lamp, She paddles her white сaпoе : " And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear ; Long and loving... | |
| Joseph Taylor - Insects - 1817 - 266 pages
...and fifty square miles, between Alexandria and Virginia. " They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true ; And she's gone to the...her white canoe. And her Fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear; Long and loving our life shall be — And I'll hide the maid... | |
| Renfrew county - 1821 - 542 pages
...inriTled them as hifc ccxi. THE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP ". " They made her a grave too cold and damp, " For a soul so warm and true ; " And she's gone to...by a fire-fly lamp, " She paddles her white canoe. * This affecting little piece is from the pen of Mr. Thomas Moore, and is founded, he tells us, on... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 348 pages
...Poesie a ses monstres comme la Nature. — D'ALEMBERT. " THEY made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul so warm and true; " And she's gone to the...white canoe. " And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, " And her paddle I soon shall hear ; " Long and loving our life shall be, And I'll hide the maid... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 344 pages
...Poe'sie a ses monstres comme la Nature.—D'ALEMBERT. " THEY made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul so warm and true; " And she's gone to the...white canoe. " And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, " And her paddle I soon shall hear ; " Long and loving our life shall be, " And I'll hide the... | |
| Peter Buchan - Ballads, English - 1825 - 228 pages
...thy guide ! The Lake of the Dismal Swamp, AMERICAN BALLAD.) THEY made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true ; And she's gone to the...her white canoe. And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear ; long and loving our life shall be, And I'll hide the maid in... | |
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