 | James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford - Historical poetry - 1902 - 470 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!... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1902 - 192 pages
...From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew — Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarrnatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! 220 Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1904 - 316 pages
...watchword and reply ; 370 Then peal'd the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm ! — In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few...Closed her bright eye, and curb'd her high career ; — 380 HOPE, for a season, bade the world farewell, And Freedom shriek'd — as KOSCIUSKO fell !... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 562 pages
....*, .1 In vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew:— 0, bloodiest picture in the book of Time! Sarmatia fell,...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 T. Vlymen - Readers - 1904 - 520 pages
...tocsins 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...crime; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, pandours: Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; so called from Pandur, a town in the... | |
 | English poetry - 188? - 986 pages
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 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won, BYRON, The Giaour, lines 123-125 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... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American poetry - 1906 - 548 pages
...watchword and reply ; Then peal'd the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm ! — In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volley'd thunder flew : — O, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 654 pages
...watchword and reply; Then peal'd the notes, omnipotent to charm, 37 And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm! — In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few...mercy in her woe! Dropp'd from her nerveless grasp the shatter' spear, Closed herbrighteye, andcurb'd her high career;— Hope, for a season, bade the world... | |
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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... 
