 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pagina’s
...murderers walk'd the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clouds liefere their eye», And flames about their brain : For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain ! « And well," quoth he, " I know, for truth, Their pangs must be extreme, — Wo, wo, unutterable... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pagina’s
...Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clouds before their eyes, THE DREAM OF EUGENE ARAM. 477 And flames about their brain : For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain 1 " And well," quoth he, " I know for truth, Their pangs must be extreme, — Woe, woe, unutterable... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pagina’s
...walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames before their brain : For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain ! " And well," quoth he, " I know for truth, Their pangs must be extreme, — Woe, woe, unutterable... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 570 pagina’s
...murderers walked the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clouds before their eyes, A nd flames about their brain : For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain ! " The "Ode to the moon " can be most fitly praised, by saying that it can be read with pleasure,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pagina’s
...walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — • With crimson clouds before their eyes, And Hames about their brain ; For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain ! " And well," quoth he, " I know for truth Their pangs must be extreme — Woe, woe, unutterable woe... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1889 - 952 pagina’s
...murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, With crimson clouds before their eyes, And fliimes about their brain : For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain 1 " And well," quoth he, " I know, for truth, Their pangs must be extreme, — Woe, woe, unutterable... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pagina’s
...walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames alwut their brain ; For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain ! " And well," quoth he, " I know for truth Their pangs must be extreme — Woe, woe, unutterable woe... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 pagina’s
...dreams from God! He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clonds before their eyes, And flames about their brain; For...blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain! "And well," quoth he, "I know, for truth, Their pangs must be extreme, — Woe, woe, unutterable woe,... | |
 | Jeanie M. Laing - 1885 - 120 pagina’s
...Murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames upon their brain : For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain." STTPERSTITION8 CONCEBNINa ANIMALS. The ancient Eomans, who were grossly superstitious, had amongst... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1905 - 872 pagina’s
...told how murderers walked the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, With crimson clouds before their eyeg, And flames about their brain ; For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain. "And well," quoth he, "I know, for truth, Their pangs must be extreme, — For why? Methought, last... | |
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To .show the burial clod ; And unknown facts of guilty acts Are seen in dreams from God. He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — • With crimson clouds before their eyes, And Hames about their brain ; For blood has left upon... 
