The winding-sheet of Edward's race : Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year and mark the night When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death thro... The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Page 66by Thomas Gray - 1804 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1837 - 84 pages
...him wait ! Amazement in his van, with Flight combin'd ; And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behind. Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death, through Berkeley's roof that ring. v. i IGHTY Victor, mighty Lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1837 - 756 pages
...noble stanza of the poet — Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of England's race ; Give ample room and verge enough, The characters of Hell to trace. Taking this as the key-note to his song, the poet of the present lay has conveyed his stern remonstrance... | |
| Charles Henry Hartshorne - Brasses - 1840 - 112 pages
...tranquil slumber, so little known to the royal couch ; as our poet says in allusion to the event : Mark the year, and mark the night, • When Severn...shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death thro' Berkeley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...tissue of thy line. n. 1. " Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race. Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of...the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright Bllv to build their aerie among the rocks of Snowdon, which from thence (as some think) were named... | |
| George Russell French - 1841 - 444 pages
...parliamentary representation. CHAPTER VIII. " Ruin seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy banners wait ! Mark the year and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright, The shrieks of death, through Berkeley's roofs that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king." GRAY. The House of PLANTAGENET continued... | |
| William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 pages
...Ude, that follows. r II. 1. * Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race. Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of...shall re-echo with affright ; The shrieks of death, through Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! fShe-wolf of France, with unrelenting... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...the tissue of thj line.' ' Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race. | through Berkeley's3 roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonising king! She-wolf4 of France, with unrelenting... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...the tissue of thy line. n. " Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race : Give ample room, and verge enough, The characters...shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death, through Berkeley's roofs that ring,5 Shrieks of an agonizing king ; She-wolf of France,6 with unrelenting... | |
| William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 328 pages
...fottowa* W iiruutiul. u II. 1. * Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race. Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of...shall re-echo with affright; The shrieks of death, through Berkley's roof thas ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king! tShe-wulf of France, with unrelenting... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...line.' ' Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race. Give ample room, aud ever man, For sake of lucre, sin against his soul ! Ktemal through Berkeley's3 roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonising king! She-wolf4 of France, with unrelenting... | |
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