... thee, But Earth which is mine, Its fruits shall deny thee ; And Water shall hear me, And know thee and fly thee ; And the Winds shall not touch thee When they pass by thee, And the Dews shall not wet thee, When they fall nigh thee : And thou shalt... The Quarterly Review - Page 46edited by - 1811Full view - About this book
| University magazine - 1850 - 794 pages
...nigh thee ; — Thou shall call upon death To release thee — in vain ! For thy pain shall remain, While Kehama shall reign, With a fire in thy heart,...And the curse shall be on thee, For ever and ever !" The victim reels under the imprecation. All is, momentarily, unrealised around him. But the curse... | |
| 1850 - 890 pages
...death To release thee — in vain ! For thy pain shall remain, While Kuhama shall reipi, With a lire in thy heart, And a fire in thy brain ; — And sleep...And the curse shall be on thee, For ever and ever !" The victim reels under the imprecation. All is, momentarily, unrealised around him. But the curse... | |
| Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851 - 300 pages
...wet thee When they fall nigh thee. And thou shalt seek death To release thee, in vain : Thou shalt live in thy pain ! While Kehama shall reign, With a fire in thy heart, And a fire in thy brain ! And Death shall obey me, And visit thee never : And the curse shall be on thee For ever and ever ! (SOUTHBY'S... | |
| John Foster - Essays - 1856 - 542 pages
...wet thee, When they fall nigh thee : And thou shalt seek Death To release thee in vain ; Thou shalt live in thy pain, While Kehama shall reign With a...shall be on thee For ever and ever." — Pp. 18, 19. The incongruity between the cantering, jingling versification of this anathema, and its formidable... | |
| David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...wet thee when they fall nigh thee : and thou shalt seek death to release thee, in vain; thou shalt live in thy pain, while Kehama shall reign with a...and the curse shall be on thee for ever and ever! XII.— ON PROCRASTINATION.— Yamtg. BE wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer: next day, the fatal precedent... | |
| Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...wet thee, when they come nigh thee ; and thou shalt seek death to release thee in vain ; thou shalt live in thy pain, while Kehama shall reign, with a...never, and the curse shall be on thee for ever and ever ! SOCTHEY. XLIV. — COMBAT OF FITZ-JAMES AND RODERICK. THE chief in silence strode before, And reached... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1860 - 338 pages
...not wet thee When they fall nigh thee ; And thou shalt seek Death To release thee in vain; Thou shalt live in thy pain, While Kehama shall reign, With a...And the Curse shall be on thee For ever and ever." 15. There where the Curse had stricken him, There stood the miserable man; There stood Ladurlad, with... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1860 - 352 pages
...wet thee When they fall nigh thee ; And thou shall seek Death To release thee in vain ; Thou shall live in thy pain, While Kehama shall reign, With a...And the Curse shall be on thee For ever and ever." 15. There where the Curse had stricken him, There stood the miserable man ; There stood Ladurlad, with... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...they fall nigh thee : and thou shalt seek Death to release thee, in vain; thou shalt live in thy pain; and Sleep shall obey me and visit thee never, and the Curse shall be on thee for ever and ever. R. SOUTHEY 1193 CHORUS OF DRUIDS SLEEP and Silence reign around; not a night-breeze wakes to blow;... | |
| Acrostics - 1865 - 260 pages
...place, The day, the hour, the sunshine, and the shade — All things pertaining to that place.' •5. 'And Sleep shall obey me, And visit thee never, And the curse shall be on thee, For ever and ever.' 6. ' Ah ! mayst thou ever be what now thou art, Nor unbeseem the promise of thy spring — As fair... | |
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