 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. "And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see And her paddle I soon shall...  The Works of Thomas Moore, Esq - Page 90by Thomas Moore - 1825 - 6 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Moore, John Francis Waller - Irish poetry - 1879 - 572 pages
...night long, by a fire -fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. "And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear ; Long and loving...Dismal Swamp he speeds — His path was rugged and son-, Through tangled juniper, beds of reeds, Through many a fun, where the serpent feeds, And man... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1879 - 294 pages
...night long, by a firefly lamp, She paddles her white cauoe. "And her firefly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear; Long and loving our life shall be, And I '11 hide the maid in a cypress-tree, When the footstep of Death is near." Away to the Dismal Swamp... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1880 - 642 pages
...night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. " And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see. And her paddle I soon shall hear ; Long and loving...beds of reeds, Through many a fen, where the serpent feeds And man never trode before ! * The Great Dismal Swamp Is ten or twelve miles distant from Norfolk,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...canoe. " And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear ; Long and loving oifr life shall be, And I'll hide the maid in a cypress...beds of reeds, Through many a fen, where the serpent feeds, And man never trod before. And when on the earth he sank to sleep, If slumber his eye-lids knew,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 584 pages
...paddle I soon shall hear; Long and loving our life shall be, And I'll hide the maid in a cypresstree, Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds, — His path was...Through tangled juniper, beds of reeds, Through many a feu where the serpent feeds, And man never trod before ! And when on the earth he sunk to sleep, If... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 582 pages
...night long, by a firefly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. And her firefly 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 iu a cypresstree, When the footstep of death is near I" Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds, — His... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...night long, by a firefly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. "And her firefly lamp I soon shall see, — Hie path was rugged and sore, Through tangled juniper, beds of reeds, Through many a fen where... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1881 - 592 pages
...cattle ; it is pretty tough work, some places. Of the great Mississippi valley a poet sings : — 1 Away to the dismal swamp he speeds, His path was rugged...beds of reeds, Through many a fen where the serpent feeds, And man never trod beforeAnd when on the ground he went to sleep, If slumber his eyelids knew,... | |
 | United States - 1881 - 1180 pages
...but had only gone to the Dismal Swamp. He disappeared suddenly, and was never heard of afterward. " Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds — His path was rugged and sore, Through tangled juifiper, beds of reeds, Through many a fen where the serpent breeds, And man never trod before. And... | |
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