 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 - 1863 - 788 pàgines
...upon his memory. Read— Chambcrs's "History of the Rebellion," a small work rc-pletc with Interest. 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 - 1865 - 784 pàgines
...fcoNWOAwrK > pmpecto, if Mt down and added UK still more pointed Invective ot '.Xx «=v? u\J> Tlin 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1870 - 652 pàgines
...plain. 0 baneful cause ! O 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 murd'ring... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pàgines
...phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. 0 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 murdering... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pàgines
...phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. Oh ! baneful cause, oh ! fatal morn, Accursed ay. — Born 1800, Died 1859. 1566.— THE PLAGUE...Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven ; and the ceased, The victor's soul was not appeased : The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames and murdering... | |
 | 1876 - 306 pàgines
...phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. O baneful cause ! O 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 murdering... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 284 pàgines
...the silent plain. O baneful canse! 0 fatal morn, Accursed to ages yet unborn! The sons against tbeir 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... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1877 - 308 pàgines
...phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. 0 baneful cause, 0 fatal morn, 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1878 - 550 pàgines
...phantoms of the ,lain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. O baneful curse ! O 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 murd'ring... | |
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