 The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan. The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Página 1021824Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Ross Wallace - 1856 - 192 páginas
...rusted in their bony hands, — In plague and famine some. Earth's cities had no sound or tread, And ships were drifting with the dead — To shores where all was dumb I Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, "With dauntless words and high, That shook the sear leaves... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 páginas
...nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high,...We are twins in death, proud Sun, Thy face is cold, tby race is run, "Jis Mercy bids theo go ; For thou ten thousand thousand years Hast seen the tide... | |
 | Francis Fulford - 1859 - 126 páginas
...rusted in their bony hands, — In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! This spirit shall return to Him Who gave its Heavenly spark ; Yet think not, Sun, it shall be dim... | |
 | Francis Fulford (bp. of Montreal.) - 1859 - 484 páginas
...rusted in their bony hands, — In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! This spirit shall return to Him Who gave its Heavenly spark ; Yet think not, Sun, it shall be dim... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1860 - 372 páginas
...nor tread, And ships were drifting with (he dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high,...by, Saying, We are twins in death, proud Sun, Thy Tace is cold, thy race is run, 'Tis Mercy bids thee go. For Hum ten thousand thousand years Hast seen... | |
 | Henry Heavisides - 1860 - 144 páginas
...rusted in their bony hands — In plague and famine some ; Earth's cities had no sound or tread, And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from the... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 páginas
...rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from the... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1861 - 320 páginas
...deplored, you know then that Gladstone, with " dauntless words and high," will speak as did he " Who shook the sere leaves from the wood As if a storm pass'd by." Perhaps his greatest triumphs have been his last. No one but Mr Gladstone could have reconciled the... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 páginas
...rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread, And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ' Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high ; That shook the sere leaves from... | |
 | John Purdue Bidlake - 1863 - 224 páginas
...soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land !' ' Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves i'rom the wood, As if a storm passed by.' ' Star after star declines, Till all have passed away, As... | |
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