 Your jailer a spider huge and grim, Amid the carrion bodies to lie, Of the worm, and the bug, and the murdered fly; These it had been your lot to bear, Had a stain been found on the earthly fair. Now list, and mark our mild decree— Fairy, this your...  The American Monthly Magazine - Page 681835Full view - About this book
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...pricks of nettles' stings ; Or seven long ages doomed to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut shell ; Or every night to writhe and bleed Beneath the tread...the centipede ; Or bound in a cobweb dungeon dim, His jailer a spider huge and grim, Amid the carrion bodies to lie Of the worm and the bug and the murdered... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - Literary Criticism - 1835 - 226 pages
...shardy wings ; Tossed on the pricks of nettles' stings ; Or seven long ages doomed to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut-shell ; Or every night to...the bug, and the murdered fly : These it had been your lot to bear, Had a stain been found on the earthly fair. Now list, and mark our mild decree —... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - 1836 - 108 pages
...shardy wings ; Tossed on the pricks of nettles' stings; Or seven long ages doomed to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut-shell ; Or every night to writhe and bleed Beneath the tread of ^he centipede ; Or bound in a cobweb dungeon dim, • Your jailer a spider huge and grim, VII. Amid... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 300 pages
...shardy wings ; Tossed on the pricks of nettles' stings ; Or seven long ages doomed to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut-shell ; Or every night to...the bug, and the murdered fly : These it had been your lot to bear, Had a stain been found on the earthly fair. Now list, and mark our mild decree —... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...shardy wings ; Tossed on the pricks of nettles' stings ; Or seven long ages doomed to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut-shell ; Or every night to...the bug, and the murdered fly : These it had been your lot to bear, Had a stain been found on the earthly fair. Now list, and mark our mild decree —... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 302 pages
...long ages doomed to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut-shell ; Or every night to writhe and ble«d Beneath the tread of the centipede ; Or bound in a...the bug, and the murdered fly : These it had been your lot to bear, Had a stain been found on the earthly fair. Now list, and mark our mild decree —... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...shardy wings; Toss'd on the pricks of nettles' stings; Or seven long ages doom'd to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut-shell ; Or every night to...carrion bodies to lie, Of the worm, and the bug, and the murder'd fly : These it had been your lot to bear, Had a stain been found on the earthly fair. Now... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...shard y wings; Toss'd on the pricks of nettles' stings; Or seven long ages doom'd to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut-shell ; Or every night to writhe and bleed Beneath th» tread of the centipede ; Or bound in a cobweb dungeon dim, Your jailer a spider huge and grim,... | |
 | United States - 1844 - 671 pages
...shady wings ; Toss'd on the pricks of nettles' stings, Or seven long ages doom'd to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut-shell; Or every night to writhe...jailer a spider huge and grim, Amid the carrion bodies lie Of the worm, and the bug, and the murder'd fly." Most appropriate tortures, these, for a fairy... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...points of nettles' slings; For seven long ages doomed to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut sheH ; Or every night to writhe and bleed Beneath the tread...centipede ; Or bound in a cobweb dungeon dim, Your jailor a spider huge and grim, Among the carrion bodies to lie, Of the worm, and the bug, and the murdered... | |
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