 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1884 - 280 pages
...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 his fiery spirit shook 1 5. That hand was cold, a frozen thing — it dropped from his like lead ; He looked up to the face... | |
 | 1884 - 124 pages
...went, He reached that grey haired chieftain's side, And then, dismounting, bent, A lowly knee to earth he bent, His father's hand he took — What was there in its nerveless touch That all his fiery spirit shook? That hand was cold — a frozen thing, It dropped... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1885 - 620 pages
...haughty king to free his long-imprison'd sire ; I Sf Bernardo del Carpio. 519 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 ? KM j That hand was cold — a frozen thing — it dropp'd from his like lead, — He look'd up to... | |
 | 1886 - 562 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 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 waved... | |
 | S. S. Hamill - 1886 - 390 pages
...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 his fiery spirit shook ? 5. That hand was cold — a frozen thing — it dropped from his like lead ! He looked up to the... | |
 | William A. Campbell - 1890 - 514 pages
...Emphasis of quality is a change from the prevailing quality to that of some other. 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? Whence and what art thou, execrable shape ! And then I cried for vengeance. From slaves that apes would... | |
 | 1888 - 364 pages
...wilt thou have my hand, dear, to lie along in thine ? " And another said : " 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 ? " also from Mrs. Hemans' " Bernardo." Then we tried the word "heart." This occurs in the first line... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 456 pages
...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 his flery spirit shook? A plume waved o'er the noble brow, — the brow was Hxtd and white He met, at last,... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1890 - 410 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 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... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1890 - 416 pages
...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...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... | |
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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... 
