 | William Pembroke Fetridge - 1881 - 795 pages
...felt as they were come To tear me from a second home; With spiders I had friendship made, And watched them in their sullen trade; Had seen the mice by moonlight...power to kill; yet, strange to tell, In quiet we had learned to dwell I 1043 My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion tends To make us... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...felt as they were come To tear me from a second home. With spiders I had friendship made, And watched them in their sullen trade, Had seen the mice by moonlight...to kill — yet, strange to tell, In quiet we had learned to dwell. My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion tends To make us what... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 680 pages
...felt as they were come To tear me from a second home : With spiders I had friendship made, And watch'd them in their sullen trade, Had seen the mice by moonlight...each race. Had power to kill — yet, strange to tell I In quiet we had learn'd to dwell ; My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion tends... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 pages
...me from a second home. With spiders I had friendship made, Aud watch'd them in their sullen tra<L,, Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should...of each race, Had power to kill — yet, strange to teil ! In quiet we had learn'd to dwell — My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 610 pages
...home : With spiders I had friendship made, A.nd wateh'd them in their sullen trade, Had seen the miee by moonlight play, And why should I feel less than they? We were all inmates of one plaee, And I, the monareh of eaeh raee, Had power to kill — yet, strange to tell ' In quiet we had... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...felt as they were come To tear me from a sacred home. With spiders I had friendship made, And watched them in their sullen trade ; Had seen the mice by moonlight play — And why should 1 feel less than they f We were all inmates of one place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 1162 pages
...felt as they were come To tear me from a second home: With spiders I had friendship made, And watch'd nest, the fox his cave. Mankind their country—Israel...On Sion's hill the False One's votaries pray, The kill—yet, strange to tell I In quiet we had learn'd to dwell; My very chains and I grew friends,... | |
 | John Alexander Joyce - 1883 - 356 pages
...insane. But what cared I for the cruelty of man ? "With spiders I had friendship made, And watched them in their sullen trade; Had seen the mice by moonlight...inmates of one place, And I the monarch of each race. " I gradually gained the liberty of locomotion in my small room, and the attendant that knocked me... | |
 | Edmund Arthur Helps - 1884 - 360 pages
...half I felt as they were come To tear me from a second home. With spiders I had friendship made, 380 We were all inmates of one place, And I, the monarch of each race, 385 Had power to kill — yet, strange to tell ! .In quiet we had learn'd to dwell ; My very chains... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 284 pages
...felt as they were come To tear me from a second home : With spiders I had friendship made, And watch'd them in their sullen trade, Had seen the mice by moonlight...strange to tell ! In quiet we had learn'd to dwell ;9 My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion tends To make us what we are : — even... | |
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With spiders I had friendship made, And watched them in their sullen trade; Had seen the mice by moonlight play — And why should I feel less than they? We were all inmates of one place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill; yet, strange... 
