 Lie slaughter'd on their native ground ; Thy hospitable roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie. The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and...  Select Scottish Songs, Ancient and Modern - Pàgina 123per Robert Hartley Cromek - 1810Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 pàgines
...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey...famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their wanton (locks ; Thy ravish'd virgins shriek in vain ; Thy infants perish on the plain. What boots it, then,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pàgines
...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey...smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famished on the rocks, Where once they fed their wanton flocks; Thy ravished virgins shriek in vain;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pàgines
...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door j In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey...smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famish 'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their wanton flocks ; Thy ravish'd virgins shriek in vain... | |
 | Catherine Laura Johnstone - 1860 - 504 pàgines
...Corcihraaiian o'f ibt fjisiorjr of Russia — $abas:ura of tfre |10Us — Statt of Sotietg in Cassia. " The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Tby swains are famish'd on the rocks. When: once they fed thelr ivauton docks. Yet, when the rage... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1861 - 372 pàgines
...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey...wanton flocks ; Thy ravish'd virgins shriek in vain ; Thy infants perish on the plain. What boots it then, in every clime, Through the wide-spreading waste... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pàgines
...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey...smites his breast, and curses life ! Thy swains are famished on the rocks Where once they fed their wanton flocks : Thy ravished virgins shriek in vain... | |
 | John Laurie Blake - 1862 - 236 pàgines
...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks Where once they...wanton flocks ; Thy ravish'd virgins shriek in vain ; Thy infants perish on the plain. What boots it then, in ev'ry clime, Through the wide spreading waste... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pàgines
...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey...wanton flocks; Thy ravish'd virgins shriek in vain; Thy infants perish on the plain. What boots it, then, in every clime, Through the wide-spreading waste... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pàgines
...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey...him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, anil curses life. Thy swains are famisli'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their wanton flocks ;... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pàgines
...stranger to the door; in smoky ruins sunk they lie, the monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees alar his all become the prey of war ; bethinks him of his...smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famished on the rocks, where once they fed their wanton flocks; thy ravished virgins shriek in vain,... | |
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