 | George Lansing Raymond - Elocution - 1879 - 358 pages
...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...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 career.... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - Elocution - 1879 - 350 pages
...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...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 career.... | |
 | G. W. Royston-Pigott, W. R. - Militarism - 1879 - 278 pages
...Jerusalem. The poet, says Alison, has celebrated these events in the immortal lines : — "Oh Moodiest picture in the book of time! Sarmatia fell unwept,...a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arras nor mercy in her woe. Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1880 - 514 pages
...toll'd their last alarm ! — In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volley 'd thunder flew : — Oh, bloodiest picture in the book...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... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...tocsin tolled their last In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew : — Oh, bloodiest picture in the book...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, [career ; — Closed her bright eye, and curbed... | |
 | mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 296 pages
...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...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high career;—... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 240 pages
...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...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 career... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...Poland evoked from the harp of this martial bard a chord whose vibrations will be felt forever : 1. Oh bloodiest picture in the book of time! Sarmatia...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 career;... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...— In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! Fram rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew : — 0, er snow. Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let...And bear it with an honest heart. -E . •e Who mis ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 826 pages
...the poet kindled up into a strain of noble indignant zeal and prophet-like inspiration. Oh, Woodiest picture in the book of Time ! Sarmatia fell, unwept,...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... | |
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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 ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear— Closed her... 
