Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe... The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White - Σελίδα 116των Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 495 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 746 σελίδες
...the watch-word and reply ; Then peal'd the notes, omnipotent to charm, And tnj loud tocsin toll tl their last alarm ! In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant...Closed her bright eye, and curb'd her high career ; — Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, And freedom shriek' d — as Kosciusko fell ! 3.... | |
| English poets - 1889 - 596 σελίδες
...vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volley' d thunder flew :— Oh, hloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept,...a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arm, nor mercy in her woe ! Dropt from her nerveless grasp the shatter'd spear, Closed her bright eye,... | |
| Granville series - 1881 - 376 σελίδες
...From rank to rank your volleyed thunders flew ; Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time ! Sarmatia6 fell — unwept — without a crime ! Found not a...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in" her woe ! 30 Dropped from her nerveless' grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high... | |
| James Booth (head master of the Caledonian schools, Liverpool) - 1881 - 232 σελίδες
...the watchword and reply ; Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin 2 tolled their last alarm ! In vain, alas ! — in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew :— Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time ! Sarmn tia, 3 fell, unwept, without... | |
| George Walter Baynham - 1881 - 152 σελίδες
...— the watchword and reply; then pealed the notes omnipotent to charm, and the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm ! — In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! from rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew ; — oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1882 - 420 σελίδες
...— the watch-word and reply; Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm! — In vain, alas ! in vain, ye...your volley'd thunder flew: — Oh, bloodiest picture iu the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime; Found not a generous friend, a pitying... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1882 - 558 σελίδες
...omnipotent to charm, And the loud toesin tolled their last alarm. 4. In vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few, Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high... | |
| Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 σελίδες
...death, the watchword and reply ; Then pealed the notes omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm ! In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew : Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time Sarmatia fell unwept, without a... | |
| James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 σελίδες
...— the watchword and reply ; Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm ! — In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew : — Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without... | |
| Anthony Walton White Evans - 1883 - 96 σελίδες
...last exhausted and bleeding, he fell by the lance of a Cossack, and a sabre cut across his forehead. " In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank...mercy in her woe! Dropp'd from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear; Closed her bright eye, and curb d her high career. Hope, for a season, bade the world... | |
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