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" Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge this day ! ' So he spake, and speaking sheathed The good sword by his side, And with his harness on his back Plunged headlong in the tide. "
Lays of Ancient Rome - Page 71
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 191 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 71

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 626 pages
...Palatinus The white porch of his home ; And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the towers of Rome. " Oh, Tiber ! father Tiber ! To whom the Romans pray,...harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank; But friends and foes in dumb surprise, With parted...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...The white porch of his home; And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the towers of Koine: "O Tiber! Father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms. Take tliou in charge this day!" So he spake, and, speaking, sheathed The good sword by his side, And. with...
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The London University Magazine, Volume 1

English literature - 1842 - 416 pages
...round, sees the white porch of his home on Mount Palatine, and thus supplicates the Roman river — " ' Oh, Tiber ! father Tiber ! To whom the Romans pray,...harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank ; But friends and foes in dumb surprise, With...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 4

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face. "Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena, " Now yield thee to our grace." 58. Round turned he, as not deigning...And, with his harness on his back, Plunged headlong iu the tide. 60. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank; But friends and foes in dumb...
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American Eclectic and Museum of Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 1

John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 604 pages
...The white porch of his home ; And he spake to the noble river That roll a by the towers of Rome. " Oh, Tiber ! father Tiber ! To whom the Romans pray,...harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bunk ; But friends and foes, in dumb surprise, With...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 71

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 624 pages
...home ; And he spake to the nohle river That rolls by the towers of Rome. " Oh, Tiber! father Tiber I To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's...harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank; But friends and foes in dumb surprise, With parted...
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The Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 1

John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 pages
...Palatinus The white porch of his home ; And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the towers of Rome. " Oh, Tiber ! father Tiber ! To whom the Romans pray, ' A Roman's life, a Roman's arrns,^ Take thou in charge this day !" So he spake, and speaking sheathed The good sword by his side,...
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English poetry, for use in the schools of the Collegiate institution ...

English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...Palatinus The white porch of his home ; And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the towers of Rome. " Oh, Tiber ! father Tiber ! To whom the Romans pray,...harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank ; But friends and foes in dumb surprise, With...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...The white porch of his home ; And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the towers of Rome. " O Tiber ! father Tiber '. To whom the Romans pray, A...harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank ; But friends and foes in dumb surprise, With...
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The Modern Poetical Speaker; Or, a Collection of Pieces Adapted for ...

Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...The white porch of his home ; And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the towers of Rome: — " Oh, Tiber ! father Tiber ! To whom the Romans pray,...thou in charge this day!" So he spake, and speaking sheath'd The good sword by his side, And, with his harness on his back, Plung'd headlong in the tide....
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