 | 1871 - 308 pages
...FATHER.] Mrs. I t'' illUil'i. " A lowly knee to earth he bent, — his father's hand he took — || j| What was there in its touch, that all his fiery spirit...hand was cold ! || || a frozen thing : — || || it dropped from his like lead! || || flc looked up to the face above — 1| the face was of the dead :... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...He reached that gray-haired chieftain's side, and there, dismounting, bent ; A lowly knee to earth And sage remarks on chalk and clay, And hints to noble lords and nurses; Tnie histories of last ye ? V. That hand was cold, — a frozen thing, — it dropped from his like lead ! He looked up to the... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1872 - 694 pages
...gray-hair'd chieftain's side, and there, dismounting, bent ; A lowly knee to earth he bent, his lather's hand he took, — What was there in its touch that...like lead : He look'd up to the face above — the nice was of the dead ! A plume waved o'er the noble brow — tho brow was fix'd and white ; He met... | |
 | 1872 - 514 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... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...spirit shook ? v. That hand was cold, — a frozen thing, — it dropped from his like lead ! He looked "1 waved o'er the noble brow, — the brow was fixed and white ; He met, at last, his father's eyes, —... | |
 | Albert M. Bacon - 1872 - 294 pages
...That hand was cold — a frozen thing — it dropped from hop » rep. drop. his like lead ! He looked up to the face above — the face was of the dead ! A plume waved o'er the noble brow — the brow was ao fixed and white ; rh upL He met, at last, his father's... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1873 - 566 pages
...Me reach'd that grey-hair'd chieftain's side, and there, dismounting, bent ; A lowly knee to earth he bent, his father's hand he took, — • What was...face above — the face was of the dead ! A plume waved o'er the noble brow — the brow was fix'd and white ; — He met at last his father's eyes —... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1873 - 704 pages
...chieftain's aide, and there, dismounting, bent : A lowly knee to earth he bent, his father 'i band betook,— What was there in its touch that all his fiery spirit...it dropp'd from his like lead : He look'd up to the lace above — the &ce was cf the dead! A plume waved o'er the noble brow — the brow , was fix'd... | |
 | Star reciter - 1873 - 330 pages
...He reached that grey-hairM 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 hia like lead ; He look'd up to the face above — the face was of the dead ! A pinnae... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 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 in its touch that all his fiery spirit shook ? 1 Bernardo del Carpio, a celebra- release. Alphonso therefore offered ted Spanish champion, after... | |
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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... 
