 | Authors, American - 1853 - 504 pages
...sweet face of the dead girl was raised more placidly to the stars than ever it had been to the sun. "Oh ! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair, — A tress o' golden hair, 0' drowned maiden's hair, Above the nets at sea ? Was never salmon yet that shone so fair Among the... | |
 | Authors, American - 1853 - 478 pages
...fish, or floating hmir, — A tress o" golden hair, O" drowned maiden'* hair. Above the nets at son ! Was never salmon yet that shone so fair Among the stakes on Dee." So ended a village tragedy. The reader may possibly >> \ X V v ^ * \ find in it the original of the... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...As far as eye could see ; The blinding mist came down and hid the land — And never home came she. Oh, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair, A tress...Above the nets at sea ? Was never salmon yet that shine so fair, Among the stakes in Dee. They row'd her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...far as eye could see ; The blinding mist came down and hid the land, And never home came she. '•0 is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress o' golden hair — 0' drowned maiden's hair, Above the nets at sea ? Was never salmon yet that shone BO fair, Among... | |
 | 1855 - 606 pages
...far as eye could see ; The blinding mist came down and hid the land — And never home came she. " Oh ! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress...salmon yet that shone so fair, Among the stakes on Dee. " They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her... | |
 | American periodicals - 1855 - 594 pages
...far as eye could see ; The blinding mists came down and hid the land, And never home came she. Hi. O, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair ? A tress o' golden hair," O' drownea maiden's hair, Above the nets at sea — Was never salmon yet that shone so fair, Among the... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...As far aa eye could see; The blinding mint came down and hid the land — And never home came she. " Oh, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress o' golden hair — 0' drowned maiden's hair, Above the nets at sea 1 Was never salmon yet that shone so fair, Among... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...As far as eye could see ; The blinding mist came down and hid the land, And never home came she. "O is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress o' golden hair^O' drowned maiden's hair, Above the nets at sea ? Was never salmon yet that shone so fair, Among... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...came she. Oh, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress o' golden hair, 0' drowned maidens hair. Above the nets at sea ? Was never salmon yet that shone so fair Among the stakes on Dee. They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her grave... | |
 | Country life - 1856 - 482 pages
...T sit in my grief ; I wait for morning in my tears ! Rear the tomb, -i -SB ta«- Jn E--n«:-m oota. Above the nets at sea ? Was never salmon yet that shone so fair, Among the stakes on Dee !" They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel, crawling foam, The cruel, hungry foam, To... | |
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Dee.' They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel, crawling foam, The cruel, hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea ; But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home, Across the sands o 
