| Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...me from a second home. With spiders I had friendship made, And watched them in their sullen trade, Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should...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... | |
| William Pembroke Fetridge - 1881 - 795 pages
...me from a second home; With spiders I had friendship made, And watched them in their sullen trade; Had seen the mice by moonlight play — And why should...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... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 680 pages
...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 play, And why should...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... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 1162 pages
...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 play, And why should...place, And I, the monarch of 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,... | |
| 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
...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 play, And why should...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... | |
| John Hunt - 1885 - 330 pages
...learned to love despair. With spiders I had friendship made, And watch'd them in their sullen trade ; Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should...place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill—yet, strange to tell! In quiet we had learnt to dwell; My very chains and I grew friends, .... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...from a second home: 380 With spiders 1 had friendship made, And watch'd them in their sullen trade, \Ve were all inmates of one place, 385 To make us what we are:—even I Regaiu'd my freedom with a... | |
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