| William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - American periodicals - 1825 - 502 pages
...thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird. At midnight, in the forest shades, I'n//, 1 1 i. ranged his Suliote band, True as the steel of their...stood, There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Platsa's day ; And now there breathed that haunted aii The sons of sires who conquered there,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - American periodicals - 1825 - 506 pages
...wing, As Eden's garden bird. At midnight, in the forest shades, Bozzaris ranged his Suliote band, Trae as the steel of their tried blades, Heroes in heart...stood, There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Plataea's day ; And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquered there,... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - Alnwick Castle - 1827 - 76 pages
...court, bower, and hall, From donjon keep to turret wall, For ten-and-sixpence sterling. MARCO BOZZARIS. AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming...stood, There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Platsea's day ; And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquered there,... | |
| 1829 - 436 pages
...conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard ; Then wore his monarch's signet ring : Then press'd that monarch's throne, — a king ; As wild his thoughts,...stood, There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Platea's day ; And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquer'd there,... | |
| Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 432 pages
...breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquer'd there, With arm to strike, and soul to dare, Heroes in heart and hand. There had the Persian's...stood, There had the glad earth drunk their blood That bright dream was his last ; He woke—to hear his sentries shriek, " To arms ! they come ! the... | |
| Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird. At midnight, in the forest shades, True as the steel of their tried blades, Heroes in...stood, There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Platxa's day ; And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquer'd there,... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...came to thy glades for shelter U 1 10 had nowhere else to go. FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. MARCO BOZZARIS. AT midnight in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming...stood, There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Plateea's day; And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquered there,... | |
| Joseph Rodman Drake - Bookbinding - 1835 - 214 pages
...court, bower, and hall, From donjon-keep to turret wall, For ten-and-sixpence sterling. MARCO BOZZARIS.4 AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming...stood, There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Platsea's day ; And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquered there,... | |
| Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...When Greece, her knee in supplianoe bent, Should tremble at his power : SELECTIONS FOR PRACTICE. 217 In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies...stood, There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Platsea's day ; And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquered there,... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...song of triumph heard ; Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne—a king; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's...stood, There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Piatsea's day : And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquered there,... | |
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