 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1877 - 974 oldal
...Moore, and at the consulate he wrote the poem already alluded to, the lover saying : " ' They made ber a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true ; And she's gone to tbe lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 oldal
...from Norfolk, and the lake in the middle of it (about seven miles long) is called Drummond's Pond " 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 firefly lamp, She paddles her... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth - 1884 - 348 oldal
...was believed that he had gone into the swamp in search of his loved one, and had there perished : — "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... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - 1885 - 456 oldal
...into that dreary wilderness, and had died of hunger, or been lost in some of its dreadful morasses." They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul...lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where all night long by the firefly lamp She paddles her white canoe. And her firefly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1887 - 232 oldal
...into that dreary wilderness, and had perished among its forest of foliage, or its dreadful morasses." "They made her a grave too cold and damp for a soul...long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe ! " Moore also, during his passage of the St. Lawrence from Kingston, pencilled the lines (nearly as... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1887 - 332 oldal
...Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream ; Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.—Barns. f 20. They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul...night long, by a firefly lamp, She paddles her white canoe.—Moore. 21. Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun! Oh, it was pitiful! Near... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1888 - 232 oldal
...into that dreary wilderness, and had perished among its forest of foliage, or its dreadful morasses." "They made her a grave too cold and damp for a soul...so warm and true ; And she's gone to the 'Lake of theDismal Swamp,' where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe ! " Moore... | |
 | Cornelia Phillips Spencer - 1888 - 292 oldal
...to the Dismal Swamp, it was supposed he had wandered thither and perished in its dreadful morasses.] THEY made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul...long, by a firefly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds — Through many a fen where the serpent feeds, And man never trod... | |
 | John Boyle O'Reilly - 1890 - 568 oldal
...wilderness and had died of hunger, or had been lost in some of its dreadful morasses." — Tradition. ' ' They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true, And she's gone to the Lake of ihe Dismal Swamp, Where all night long, by her fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. Her fire-fly... | |
 | John Boyle O'Reilly - 1890 - 564 oldal
...been lost in some of its dreadful morasses." — Tradition. " They made her a grave too cold and clamp For a soul so warm and true, And she's gone to the...Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where all night long, by her fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. Her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle... | |
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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... 
