Hidden fields
Books Books
" He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down ; And with a withering look The war-denouncing trumpet took ; And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe . And ever and anon he beat The doubling drum with furious heat... "
Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ... - Page 375
by William Hazlitt - 1824 - 822 pages
Full view - About this book

The Famous Allegories

James Baldwin - Allegories - 1893 - 332 pages
...Then black Despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world, in which I moved alone." And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic...furious heat; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered...
Full view - About this book

School English: A Manual for Use in Connection with the Written English Work ...

George Prentiss Butler - English language - 1894 - 284 pages
...frown, Revenge impatient rose : He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down, And with a with'ring look The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast...he beat The doubling drum with furious heat ; And tho' sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity at his side Her soul-subduing voice applied,...
Full view - About this book

A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry

Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...And HopeXenchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair. And longer had she sung ; — but with a frown, Revenge Impatient rose : He threw his blood-stain'd...dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe 1 And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum, with furious heat ; And though sometimes, each dreary...
Full view - About this book

The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1897 - 410 pages
...And longer had she sung : — but with a frown Revenge impatient rose : He threw his blood-stain' d sword in thunder down ; And with a withering look...furious heat; And, though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity at his side Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unalter'd...
Full view - About this book

Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern

Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 478 pages
...243 And longer had she sung,— but with a frown, Revenge impatient rose ; He threw his blood-stained sword in thunder down. And with a withering look The...furious heat; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied. Yet still he kept his wild unaltered...
Full view - About this book

A thousand and one gems of English poetry, selected and arranged by C. Mackay

Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair. And longer had she sung; — but with a frown, Revenge impatient rose : He threw his blood-stain'd...full of woe! And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling druin, with furious heat; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side,...
Full view - About this book

The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from ..., Volume 8

Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...And longer had she sung-,— -but with a, frown Eevenge impatient rose : He threw his blood-stained sword in thunder down ; And with a withering look...furious heat ; And, though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity at his side Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered...
Full view - About this book

The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 6

John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 536 pages
...And longer had she sung ; — but, with a frown, Revenge, impatient, rose. He threw his blood-stained sword in thunder down, And, with a withering look,...furious heat : And, though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild, unaltered...
Full view - About this book

The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 17

Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 432 pages
...And longer had she sung : — but with a frown Eevenge impatient rose : He threw his blood-stained sword in thunder down ; And with a withering look...furious heat ; And, though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity at his side Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered...
Full view - About this book

Gems of Genius in Poetry and Art: From the Kings and Queens of Thought : and ...

Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...hair. And longer had she sung, but with a frown, Revenge impatient rose ; "He threw his blood-stained sword in thunder down, And with a withering look,...furious heat ; And though, sometimes, each dreary pause between Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, "Yet still he kept his wild, unaltered...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF