 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 344 pages
...air drest, I will creep into her breast ; Flush her cheek, aud bleach her skin, And feed on the vital fire within. Lover, do not trust her eyes, — When...mine, and I must have her ! The coffin must be her bridal bed ; The winding-sheet must wrap her head ; The whispering winds must o'er her sigh, For soon... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - English literature - 1808 - 380 pages
...air drest, I will creep into her breast; Flush her cheek, and bleach her skin, And feed on the vital fire within. Lover, do not trust her eyes,—• When...mine, and I must have her! The coffin must be her bridal bed; The winding-sheet must wrap her head; The whispering winds must o'er her sigh, For soon... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1808 - 698 pages
...air drest, I will creep into her breast; Flush her cheek, and bleach her skin, And feed on the vital fire within. Lover, do not trust her eyes, — When...mine, and I must have her! The coffin must be her bridal bed; The winding-sheet must wrap her head; The whispering winds must o'er her sigh, For soon... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1811 - 456 pages
...au* drest, I will creep into her breast; Flush her cheek, and bleach her skin, And feed on the vital fire within. Lover, do not trust her eyes—- When...mine, and I must have her ! The coffin must be her bridal bed; • • The winding sheet must wrap her head; The whispering winds must o'er her sigh,... | |
 | 1812 - 470 pages
...air drest, I will creep into her breast; Flush her cheek, and bleach her skin, And feed on the vital fire within. Lover, do not trust her eyes — When...they sparkle most she dies ! Mother, do not trust her breathComfort she will breathe in death ! Father, do not strive to save her—- She is mine, and I... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1813 - 398 pages
...air drcst, I will creep into her breast ; Flush her cheek, and bleach her skin, And feed on the vital fire within. Lover, do not trust her eyes, — When they sparkle most, she dies I Mother, do not trust her breath, — Comfort she will breathe in death ! Father, do not strive to... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1816 - 398 pages
...air drest, I will creep into her breast: Flush her cheek, and bleach her skin, And feed on the vital fire within. Lover, do not trust her eyes, — "When...mine, and I must have her ! The coffin must be her bridal bed ; The winding-sheet must wrap her head; The whispering winds must o'er her sigh, For soon... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1820 - 302 pages
...air drest, 1 will creep into her hreast ; Flush her cheek, and hleach her skm, And feed on the vital fire within. , Lover, do not trust her eyes, — When...they sparkle most she dies ! Mother, do not trust her hreath, — Comfort she will hreathe in death ! Father, do not strive to .^ave her,— She is mine,... | |
 | English literature - 1825 - 600 pages
...almost painfully true to nature: " 'Twill Flush her cheek, and blnacb her skin, And feed on the vital fire within : Lover, do not trust her eyes. When they sparkle most sfie dies !" The allusion to the " chill blast thrown o'er" his young hopes, in the " Lines written... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - English poetry - 1827 - 486 pages
...dress'd I will creep into her breast ; Flush her cheek, and bleach her skin, And feed on the vital fire within. Lover, do not trust her eyes, — •...mine, and I must have her ! The coffin must be her bridal bed ; The winding-sheet must wrap her head; The whispering winds must o'er her sigh, For soon... | |
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I will creep into her breast ; Flush her cheek, and bleach her skin, And feed on the vital fire within. Lover, do not trust her eyes, — When they sparkle most she dies ! Mother, do not trust her breath, — Comfort she will breathe in death ! Father,... 
