 Devouring flames , and murd'ring steel ! The pious mother doom'd to death, Forsaken wanders o'er the heath, The bleak wind whistles round her head, Her helpless orphans cry for bread; Bereft of shelter, food, and friend, She views the shades of night...  The Jacobite Relics of Scotland: Being the Songs, Airs, and Legends, of the ... - Pàgina 1821821Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pàgines
...Injure hbi prospects, he sat down and added the still more pointed Inveetlve of the seventh stanza. The sons against their fathers stood, The parent shed his children's blood. Yet, when the rape of battle ceased, The victor's soul wits not appeased : The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 pàgines
...5 Oh ! baneful cause, oh ! fatal morn, Accursed to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their father stood, The parent shed his children's blood. Yet, when the rage of battle ceased, The victor's soul was not appeased : The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 pàgines
...5 Oh ! baneful cause, oh ! fatal morn, Accursed to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their father stood, The parent shed his children's blood. Yet, when the rage of battle ceased, The victor's soul was not appeased : The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames, and... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pàgines
...phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. O ! baneful cause, oh ! fatal mom, Accurs'd to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their fathers...naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames, and murd'ring steel ! The pious mother doom'd to death, Forsaken wanders o'er the heath, The bleak wind... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pàgines
...stain upon hU memory. Read—Chamber*'* "History of the Rebellion," a small work replete with hitcrutu The sons against their fathers stood, The parent shed...his children's blood. Yet, when the rage of battle ceased, The victor's soul was not appeased: The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames and murdering... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pàgines
...heard but sounds of woe, While the pale phantoms of the slain (jlide nightly o'er the silent plain. The sons against their fathers stood, The parent shed...his children's blood. Yet, when the rage of battle ceased, The victor's soul was not appeased : The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames and murdering... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 pàgines
...plain. O ! baneful curse ! 0 ! fatal mom ! Accurs'd to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their father stood, The parent shed his children's blood. Yet when...The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames and murd'ring steel. The pious mother, doom'd to death, Forsaken, wanders o'er the heath ; The bleak wind... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pàgines
...plain. Oh ! baneful cause, oh ! fatal morn, Accursed to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their father stood, The parent shed his children's blood. Yet, when the rage of battle ceased, The victor's soul was not appeased : The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames and murdering... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pàgines
...reod but one of Sraolk-l'a novel* and «uch wa» lt» character that I never wuh to n*J another. Tlie sons against their fathers stood, The parent shed his children's blood. Yet, when the rage of battle ceased, The victor's soul was not appeased : The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames and murdering... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pàgines
...phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. O baneful cause ! oh fatal morn, Accursed to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their fathers...his children's blood. Yet, when the rage of battle ceased, The victor's soul was not appeased ; The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames, and... | |
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