 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 pages
...spot? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. I see before me the Gladiator lie : (') Ho leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red... | |
 | 1843 - 368 pages
...greeting Of an enamour'd goddess, and the cell Haunted by holy love — the earliest oracle ! «*****#« I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly browConsents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low ; And through his... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...despair. The flowers that adorn his poetry bloom over charnel-houses and the grave ! THE DYING GLADIATOR. I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow • From the red... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - 1845 - 408 pages
...a poet's fancy has conjured up those images which nature mingles with our latest consciousness : " I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And thro' his side the last drops ebbing slow From the red gash,... | |
 | 1845 - 916 pages
...' Childe Harold,' with which we shall beg to refresh the reader's memory. VOL. i. — NO. vii. 2 i. I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony. And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops ebbing slow From the red gash,... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - 1845 - 230 pages
...from the moving association with which he invests it, has the graphic fidelity of a Daguerreotype. " I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low, And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash,... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 448 pages
...found to embody. The poet interposes while the strife is loudest, and furnishes the perfect history. " I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...Consents to death, but conquers agony, — And his droop'd head sinks, gradually low — And through his side, the last drops, ebbing slow, From the red... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...worms — on battle-plains or listed spot ? Both are but theatres, where the chief actors rot. CXL. I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually lowAm! through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash,... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - 1846 - 478 pages
...language of poetry, of what this ancient and unknown sculptor has so well expressed in marble — " I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red... | |
 | 1846 - 236 pages
...not, for his own life, spare his fallen foe — that foe, perhaps, his countryman and his friend. " I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low : And through his sides the last drops ebbing slow From the red gash... | |
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I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low— And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one,... 
