 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1837
...then, in strife bewildering, Spilt blood enough to swim in ; We orphaned many children, (chilJtring) And widowed many women. The eagles and the ravens We glutted with the foemeii; Their heroes and their cravens, Their lancers and their bowmen. As for Santa Anna, their... | |
 | J. Russom - 1850
...gaze absorbed, Or till, in kindred sympathy of soul It wears itself the grief it would relieve." " We there, in strife bewild'ring, Spilt blood enough to swim in. We orphan'd many children, And widowqd many women. The eagles and the ravens, We glutted with our foemen... | |
 | Lewis Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1983 - 239 pages
...best of them (excluding the teacher's!) was of verse 4, which reads: We there in strife bewildering, Spilt blood enough to swim in: We orphaned many children,...heroes and the cravens, The spearmen and the bowmen. The alliterative pattern ^f the first two lines (strife, spilt, swim) was picked up very 'Well by the... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring - Poetry - 1995 - 891 pages
...hall-pillars; And, ere our force we led off, Some sacked his house and cellars, While others cut his head off. We there, in strife bewild'ring, Spilt blood enough...eagles and the ravens We glutted with our foemen; 30 The heroes and the cravens, The spearmen and the bowmen. We brought away from battle, And much their... | |
 | D. F. S. Thomson - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 578 pages
...expressed here is to be found in Thomas Love Peacock's The War Song of Dinas Vawr (qv, passim): . . . spilt blood enough to swim in; We orphaned many children, And widowed many women. 348 clara facta are virtually a synonym for egregiae virtutes; cf. 51 n., and line 323. 350 incultum... | |
 | ...hall-pillars; And, ere our force we led off, Some sacked his house and cellars, While others cut his head off. We there, in strife bewild'ring, Spilt blood enough...ravens We glutted with our foemen; The heroes and the-cravens, The spearmen and the bowmen. We brought away from battle, And much their land bemoaned... | |
 | ...Some sacked his house and cellars. While others cut his head off. We there, in strife bewildering, Spilt blood enough to swim in : We orphaned many children, And widowed many women. 471 The eagles and the ravens We glutted with our foemen : The heroes and the cravens, The spearmen... | |
 | ...And, ere our force we led off, Some sack'd his house and cellars, While others cut his head off. Iv. We there, in strife bewild'ring, Spilt blood enough to swim in : We orphan'd many children, And widow'd many women. The eagles and the ravens We glutted with our foemen... | |
 | ...ere our force we led off, Some sack'd his house and cellars, While others cut his head off. 342 IV. We there, in strife bewild'ring, Spilt blood enough to swim in : We orphan'd many children, And widow'd many women. The eagles and the ravens We glutted with our foemen... | |
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As we drove our prize at leisure, The king marched forth to catch us : His rage surpassed all measure, But his people could not match us. 