 | 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 824 pages
...noble indignant zeal and prophet-like inspiration. Oh, bloodiest picture in the hook of Time I Sarmatlu fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous...pitying foe. Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! Dropped from her nerveless pra.«p the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye, niul curbed her high... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Children's Literature, English - 1880 - 240 pages
...to rank your volleyed thunder flew : Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of time, Sarmatia-f ell — unwept —without a crime ! Found not a generous friend,...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 Walter Baynham - Elocution - 1881 - 152 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... | |
 | English poets - English poetry - 1889 - 596 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
