 | Improved illustrated reader - 1885 - 266 pages
...their last alarm ! — 4. 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, John Hogben - English poetry - 1885 - 296 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 blight eye, and curbed her high... | |
 | George William Bagby - 1885 - 440 pages
..."loud cry of trampled Hindostan" awakened the eloquence of Sheridan, but the Poland of America — " Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe !" oo c- oo " Naked and desolate she stands, Her name a by-word in all lands." No man of commanding... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 562 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 of...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe. Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye arid curbed her high career.... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...alarm! — In vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder fiew: — O, 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 Adolphus Wheeler - Anonyms and pseudonyms - 1893 - 490 pages
...used in modern poetry as synonymous with Poland. Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time! Samtatia fell unwept, without a crime; Found not a generous...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe. Campbell. Sar-pe'don. [Gr. SapirícW.] (Gr. <f Rum. Myth.) A son of Jupiter, and king of Lycia, who... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1894 - 462 pages
...civilized nations at the fall of Jerusalem. The poet has celebrated these events in the immortal lines: "Oh! bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia...in her woe ! Dropp'd from her nerveless grasp the shatter' d spear, Closed her bright eye, and curb'd her high career: Hope for a season bade the world... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1894 - 544 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 of...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 Mackintosh - Scotland - 1896 - 532 pages
...the infamous partition of Poland, he rose to a high pitch of inspiration, as in these lines : — " Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of time ! Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generons friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! Dropped from her nerveless... | |
 | Scotch-Irish Society of America - Scots-Irish - 1897 - 480 pages
...them. The situation recalls the pathetic stanza of one of the earlier poets on a kindred subject: O bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell...pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe. The men who fled in 1763 returned almost to a man in 1766 and 1767, at the close of the Indian war... | |
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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... 
