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" 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
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Palgrave's Golden Treasury: 1st series

Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1917 - 360 pages
...responsive voice was heard at every close; And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair; — He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down ;...furious heat; And, though sometimes, each dreary pause betweem, Dejected Pity at his side Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unalter'd...
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English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 422 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 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...
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 2

American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...And longer had she sung, — but, with a frown, Revenge impatient rose; He threw his blood-stained YET once more, O ye Laurels, and once more Ye between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered...
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A Book of British and American Verse

Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...longer had she sung — but, with a frown. Revenge impatient rose ; He threw his blood-stained svyord in thunder down: And, with a withering look, The war-denouncing...furious heat: And though, sometimes, each dreary pause between, The Passions Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 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...anon 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,...
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Politics of English Jacobinism: Writings of John Thelwall

Gregory Claeys - History - 2010 - 597 pages
...awaken them from their lethargy. He seized, therefore, again the trump of political controversy — "With a withering look, The war-denouncing trumpet...anon he beat The doubling drum with furious heat." (Collins.l1 Such a peal, at such a time was certainly of all things most desirable. No other circumstance...
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