 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 736 pages
...wight His dwelling has, low in an hollow cave, Far underneath a craggy cliff ypight,* Dark, doleful, dreary, like a greedy grave, That still for carrion...carcases doth crave : On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly owl, Shrieking his baleful note, which ever drave Far from that haunt all other cheerful fowl : And... | |
 | Edward Farr - English poetry - 1847 - 412 pages
...baleful bowre, Much like the mouth of that infernall cave That gaping stood all comers to devoure, Dark, dolefull, dreary — like a greedy grave, That still for carrion carcases doth crave : The ground no herbs but venomous did beare, Nor ragged trees did leave, but ev'ry where Dead bones... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd - 1845 - 654 pages
...wight His dwelling has, low in an hollow cave, Far underneath a craggy cliff ypight, Darke, doleful!, * chearefull fowle ; And all about it wandring ghostes did wayle and howle : XXXIV. And all about old... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...in a hollow care, Far underneath a craggy cliff ypight, Dark, doleful, dreary, like a greedy grove, That still for carrion carcases doth crave : On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly owl, Shrieking his baleful note, which ever drave Far from that haunt all other cheerful fowl ; And... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 532 pages
...bower, Much like the mouth of that infernal cave, That gaping stood all comers to devour, Dark, doleful, dreary, like a greedy grave, That still for carrion carcases doth crave. The ground no herbs, but venomous, did bear, Nor ragged trees did leave ; but every where Dead bones... | |
 | Henry T. Cooke - 1851 - 306 pages
...where that same wicked wight His dwelling has, low in an hollow rave, Far underneath a craggy cliff ypight. Darke, dolefull, dreary, like a greedy grave,...carrion carcases doth crave: On top whereof ay dwelt the gastly owle, Shrieking his balefull note, which ever drave Far from that haunt all other cheerfull... | |
 | Henry T. Cooke and Son - Warwick (England) - 1851 - 294 pages
...wicked wight His dwelling has, low in an hollow cave, Far underneath a craggy cliff ypight. IJarke, dolefull, dreary, like a greedy grave, That still...carcases doth crave : On top whereof ay dwelt the gastly owle, Shrieking his baleful! note, which ever drave Far from that haunt all other cheerfull... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1853 - 462 pages
...cave, Far underneath a craggy cliff ypight,4 JDarke, dolefull, dreary, like a greedy grave, jrThat still for carrion carcases doth crave : On top whereof...note, which ever drave Far from that haunt all other chearefull fowle ; And all about it wandring ghostes did wayle and howle : XXXIV. And all about old... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...dwelling: has, low in a hollow cave, Far underneath a craggy cliff ypight, Dark, doleful, dreary, like n greedy grave, That still for carrion carcases doth crave : On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly owl, Shrieking his baleful note, which ever drave Far from that taunt all other cheerful fowl ; And... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1855 - 858 pages
...where that same wicked wight 33 His dwelling has, low in an hollow cave, Far underneath a craggy cliff ypight, Darke, dolefull, dreary, like a greedy grave, That still for carrion carcases doth crave : Oi top whereof ay dwelt the gliastly owle, Shrieking his balefull note, which ever drave Far from... | |
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Darke, dolefull, dreary, like a greedy grave, That still for carrion carcases doth crave : On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly Owle, Shrieking his balefull note, which ever drave Far from that haunt all other chearefull fowle, And all about it wandring... 
