 | John Swain (Writer of Verse.) - 1877 - 436 pages
...his own betrothed bride, She, who would rather die with him, Than live to gain the world beside 1 — Her arms are round her lover now, His livid cheek...dips, to bind his burning brow, In the cool lake her loosen d tresses. Ah ! once, how little did he think An hour would come, when he should shrink With... | |
 | Thomas Moore, John Francis Waller - Irish poetry - 1879 - 572 pages
...off, through moonlight dim, He knew his own betrothed bride, She, who would rather die with him, Than live to gain the world beside ! Her arms are round...tresses. Ah! once, how little did he think An hour would come, when he should shrink With horror from that dear embrace, Those gentle arms, that were... | |
 | David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...through moonlight dim, he knew his own betrothed bride— she, who would rather die with him, than live, to gain the world beside ! Her arms are round...dips, to bind his burning brow, in the cool lake her loosened tresses. She fails — she sinks! — as dies the lamp in charnel airs, or cavern damp; —... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1880 - 642 pages
...off, through moonlight dim, He knew his own betrothed bride, She, who would rather die with him, Than live to gain the world beside !— Her arms are round...dips, to bind his burning brow, In the cool lake her loosened tresses. Ah ! once, how little did he think An hour would come when he should shrink With... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1881 - 544 pages
...off, through moonlight dim, He knew his own betrothed bride, She, who would rather die with him, Than live to gain the world beside ! — Her arms are round...dips, to bind his burning brow, In the cool lake her loosen 'd tresses. Ah ! once, how little did he think, An hour would come, when he should shrink With... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1881 - 900 pages
...betrothed bride, She, who would rather die with him, Than live to gain the world beside ! — Her jvrms arc round her lover now, His livid cheek to hers she presses,...dips, to bind his burning brow, In the cool lake her looaeu'd tresses. Ah ! once, how little did he think An hour would come, when he should shrink With... | |
 | Gleanings - 1882 - 548 pages
...off, through moonlight dim, He knew his own betrothed bride, She, who would rather die with him, Than live to gain the world beside !— Her arms are round...dips, to bind his burning brow, In the cool lake her loosen 'd tresses. Ah ! once how little did he think An hour would come, when he shou) With horror... | |
 | William Moffatt (publisher) - 1883 - 182 pages
...off, through moonlight dim, He knew his own betrothed bride, She, who would rather die with him, Than live to gain the world beside ! Her arms are round...dips, to bind his burning brow, In the cool lake her loosened tresses. " Oh ! let me only breathe the air, The blessed air, that's breathed by thee, And,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...off, through moonlight dim, He knew his own betrothed bride, She, who would rather die with him, Than the shadow of the ship Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They In the cool lake her loosen'd tresses. Ah! once, how little did he think I An hour would come, when... | |
 | English literature - 1887 - 428 pages
...off, through moonlight dim, He knew his own betrothed bride, She, who would rather die with him, Than live to gain the world beside !— Her arms are round...hers she presses, And dips, to bind his burning brow, 246 247 With horror from that dear embrace, Those gentle arms that were to hiiü Holy as is the cradling... | |
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Tis she — far off, through moonlight dim, He knew his own betrothed bride, She, who would rather die with him, Than live to gain the world beside ! — Her arms are round her lover now , His livid cheek to hers she presses, And dips, to bind his burning... 
