 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878 - 426 pages
...strike, but has not courage to give the blow. III. OF QUALITY. I. Aspirate: A lowly Tcnee to earth he bent; his father's hand he took. What was there in its touch that all his fiery spirit shook f 3. Pectoral : You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run From slaves that... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1878 - 696 pages
...chieftain's side, and there, dismounting, bent ; A lowly knee to earth he bent, his father's hand ho took, — What was there in its touch that all his fiery spirit shook 1 That hand was cold — a frozen thing — it dropp'd from his like lead : He look'd up to the face... | |
 | Joseph Wadsworth Keene - 1879 - 256 pages
...He reached that gray-haired chieftain's side, and there, dismounting, bent : A lowly knee to earth he bent ; his father's hand he took : — What was...shook ? That hand was cold — a frozen thing ! it dropped from his like lead : He looked up to the face above : — the face was of the dead ! A plume... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1879 - 672 pages
...He reached that grey-haired chieftain's side, and there, dismounting, bent ; A lowly knee to earth he bent, his father's hand he took, — What was there...shook ? That hand was cold — a frozen thing — it dropped from his like lead, — He looked up to the face above — the face was of the dead ! A plume... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1879 - 304 pages
...; He reached the grey-haired chieftain's side, and there, dismounting, bent ; A lowly knee to earth he bent, his father's hand he took — What was there...shook ? That hand was cold — a frozen thing — it dropped from his like lead ; He looked up to the face above, — the face was of the dead; A plume... | |
 | Allen Ayrault Griffith - 1879 - 348 pages
...amidst the war of elements,— The wreck of matter,- and the crush of worlds. A lowly knee to earth he bent,— his father's hand he took ;- What was...? — That hand was cold ! a frozen thing ! — it dropped from his like leadl-- He looked up to the face above the face was of the dead ! — A plume... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 408 pages
...went ; He reach'd that gray-haired chieftain's side, and there dismounting bent; A lowly knee to earth he bent, his father's hand he took, — What was there in its touch that all his fiery spirit shook? Fhat hand was cold, a frozen thing, it dropp'd from his like lead ; He looked up to the face above,... | |
 | Ferguson - 1881 - 386 pages
...He reached that grey-hair'd chieftain's side, and then, dismounting, bent — A lowly knee to earth he bent, his father's hand he took : What was there...shook ? That hand was cold — a frozen thing — it dropped from his like lead ; He look'd up to the face above — the face was of the dead ! A plume... | |
 | Granville series - 1881 - 376 pages
...heaved, his cheeks' blood came and went ; A lowly knee to earth he bent, his father's hand he took : 15 What was there in its touch that all his fiery spirit...shook ? That hand was cold — a frozen thing — it dropped from his like lead ; He look'd up to the face above — the face was of the dead ! c A plume... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1881 - 578 pages
...and there, dismounting, bent ; A lowly knee to earth he bent, his father's hand he took, — )Vhat was there in its touch that all his fiery spirit shook ? That hand was cold — a frozen thing — it dropped from his like lead, — He looked up to the face above — the face was of the dead! A plume... | |
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His dark eye flashed, his proud breast heaved, his cheek's hue came and went; He reached that gray-haired chieftain's side, and there, dismounting, bent; A lowly knee to earth he bent, his father's hand he took — What was there in its touch that all... 
