 Thy towering spirit now is broke, Thy neck is bended to the yoke. What foreign arms could never quell, By civil rage and rancour fell. The rural pipe and merry lay No more shall cheer the happy day : No social scenes of gay delight Beguile the dreary...  Novels and Novelists from Elizabeth to Victoria - Page 154by John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1791 - 546 pages
...the dreary winter night: strains but those of sorrow flow, . vnd nought be heard but sounds of wo; While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. Oh baneful cause, oh fatal morn, Accurs'd to ages yet unborn! The sons against their fathers stood;... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 472 pages
...neck is bended to the yoke. What foreign arms could never quell, By civil rage, and rancour fell. The rural pipe, and merry lay No more shall cheer the...delight Beguile the dreary winter night : No strains hut those of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe, While the pale phantoms of the slain... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...neck is bended to the yoke. What foreign arms could never quell By civil rage, and rancour fell. The rural pipe and merry lay No more shall cheer the happy...of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. TOBIAS SMOLLET. O baneful canse ' oh, fatal morn, Accurs'd to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...bended to the yoke. What foreign arms could never quell, By civil rage and rancour fell. i • The rural pipe and merry lay No more shall cheer the happy...of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of wo, While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. O baneful cause ! oh,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...is uended to the yoke : What foreign arras could never quell, By civil rage and rancor fell. 'I he n are about to live." For ever on the brink of being born : All sociiil scenes tit gay delight Jl-tfuile the dreary winter night : rCo strains but those of sorrow... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...is bended to the yoke. What foreign arms could never quell, By civil rage'and rancour fell. IV, The rural pipe, and merry lay, No more shall cheer the...of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. V. O baneful cause! oh fatal morn! Accurs'd to ages yet unborn! The sons against the father stood,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 680 pages
...neck is bended to the yoke. What foreign arms could never quell, By civil rage and rancour fell. The rural pipe and merry lay No more shall cheer the happy...of the slain, Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. O baneful ca^se, oh, fatal morn, Accurs'd to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their fathers stood,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...could never quell. By civil rage and rancour fell. The rural pipe and merry lay No more shall chear the happy day : No social scenes of gay delight Beguile...slain Glide nightly o'er .the silent plain. 0 baneful cause ! oh, fatal morn, Accursed to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their father stood, The parent... | |
 | Robert Hartley Cromek - Ballads, Scots - 1810 - 260 pages
...neck is bended to the yoke : What foreign arms could never quell, By .civil rage and rancour fell. The rural pipe and merry lay, No more shall cheer the...sorrow, flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe 5 While the pale phantoms of the slain, 125 Oh ! baneful cause ! — oh ! fatal morn, Accurs'd to ages... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 680 pages
...neck is bended to the yoke. What foreign arms could never quell, By civil rage and rancour fell. The rural pipe and merry lay No more shall cheer the happy...winter night: No strains but those of sorrow flow, > nd nought be heard but sounds of woe, While the pale phantoms of the slaiu Olide nightly o'er the... | |
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