 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1798 - 240 psl.
...might else be seen. Like one, that on a lonely road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on And turns no more his head : Because...fiend Doth close behind him tread. But soon there breath'da wind on mr, Ne sound ne motion made : Its path was not upon the sea In lipple or in shade.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 psl.
...been seen, 186 Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread. And having once turn'd round, walks on And turns no more his head : Because...fiend Doth close behind him tread. But soon there breath'da wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made .Its path was not upon the sea In ripple or in shade.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 psl.
...more I view'd the ocean green, And look'd far forth, yet little- saw Of what had else been seen. 186 Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on And turns no more his head : Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 psl.
...turn them up to pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more I view'd the ocean green, And look'd far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen....road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on And turns no more his head : Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 psl.
...turn them up to pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more J view'd the ocean green, And look'd far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen....road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on And turns no more his head : Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 psl.
...be seen. * Like one, that on a lonely road ' Doth walk in fear and dread, ' And having once turn'd round, walks on, ' And turns no more his head: ' Because...Doth close behind him tread. .. . > ' But soon there breath'da wind on me, ' Ne sound ne motion made: . ' ' Its path was not upon the sea * In ripple or... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 psl.
...theirs, Nor turn them up to pray. The curse is And now this spell was snapt : once more finally expiated. I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet...road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close... | |
 | 1857 - 878 psl.
...those terrors so well described by Coleridge, who, I think, must have been garotted in his day ; — " Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walk* on, And turns no more hix head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind hiui tread."... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823 - 586 psl.
...fear ; and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to look about me : Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread*. Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various * Coleridge's " Ancient... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 psl.
...could not draw my eyes from theirs, Nor turn them up to pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet...road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close... | |
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Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. 
