The House by the Se
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781151579461
Paperback|9781151579461
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ... Her angel look was upward turned; Her white breast heaved as if it yearned i To breathe her very soul away In a prayer which words had failed to say. Her upturned face--her fallen hair, Her hands clasped on her bosom fair, Her heaving breast but half concealed, The fulness of her prayer revealed. As the watcher gazed, he felt his brain Branded with a forgotten pain; And thoughts he had deemed frozen, dead, Warmed snakelike, by his heart's flame fed, Till thus the voice of a demon guest With scornful laugh its joy expressed: --"The hawk looks down on the ring-dove's nest; He loves her meek voice and her smooth meek breast And the beautiful bird shall still be as meek When her red heart quivers in the falcon's beak " "Horrible fiend " he cried, in pain, "Back to your baneful den again Oh, Death, stand by me in this hour, And strike me ere the fiend have power Have I not, with a terrible oath, - On the breast of the dying sworn my troth? Did I not swear when Death was at strife, In the white dome of her bosom, with life, --Though I had wronged her living trust, --To be true, ay, as true as the tomb to her dust? For this she forgave the great wrong I had wrought, And mingled my name in her last sweet thought, And promised that, in an hour of fear, Her soul should be as a guardian near " As he spoke, the great tears swam over his gaze, Till the white moon reeled in delirious haze, And the stars were unsteady as gust-winnowed chaffStill his innermost soul heard the mad demon laugh. "Look look again " Thus cried the fiend, "One look before the vision is screened--Oh, never was Parian so fair to the sight Oh, never such beauty pulsed love through the night " But still the pale man, like some martyr who dies, Looked into the sky with fixed agonized eyes, Sig...
| ISBN-13 | 9781151579461 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1151579467 |
| Weight | 0.26 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.17 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 72 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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