 Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof Like an articulate wail, and there, alone, Wasted to ghastly thinness, Helon knelt. The echoes of the melancholy strain Died in the distant aisles, and he rose...  The poetical works of N.P. Willis - Seite 6von Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1867 - 260 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1835 - 866 Seiten
...beneath the hard uumoistened scales, * And from their edges grew the rank white hair, —And Helen was a leper ! " Day was breaking When at the altar...temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a lowchaunt Swelled through the arches of the roof Like an articulate... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1831 - 84 Seiten
...away From the dull flesh about them, and the hues Deepened beneath the hard unmoistened scales, And from their edges grew the rank white hair, — And...temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof Like... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1831 - 88 Seiten
...Deepened beneath the hard unmoistened scales, And from their edges grew the rank white hair, — And Helen was a leper ! Day was breaking When at the altar of...temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant. Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof Like... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 Seiten
...utterance, like one Whose heart is with an iron nerve put down, Crying "Unclean! — Unclean!" * * * * Day was breaking When at the altar of the temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense-lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant Swelled through the hollow arches of the... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 Seiten
...stood The holy priest of God. The incense-lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof, Like an articulate wail, and tkere, alone, Wasted to ghastly thinness, Helon knelt. The echoes of the melancholy strain Died in... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1835 - 274 Seiten
...him. From the dull flesh about them, and the hues Deepened beneath the hard unmoistened scales, And from their edges grew the rank white hair, —And...temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chaunt Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof Like... | |
 | 1838 - 822 Seiten
...away From the dull flesh about them, and the hues Deepened beneath the hard unmoistened scales, And from their edges grew the rank white hair, — And...temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chaunt Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof Like... | |
 | 1839 - 430 Seiten
...hard, unmoistened scales, And from their edges grew the rank white hair, —And 11 rlim was a leper! When at the altar of the temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant Swelled through the holiow arches of the roof Like... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1841 - 422 Seiten
...away From the dull flesh about them, and the hues Deepened beneath the hard, unmoistened scales, And from their edges grew the rank white hair, — And Helon was a leper I Day was breaking When at the altar of the temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burned... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 Seiten
...hard, unmoistened scales, And from their edges grew the rank white hah-, •—And Helen was a leper! When at the altar of the temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant] Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof Like... | |
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