 The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan. The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 1021824Full view - About this book
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread, And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Nathaniel Parker Willis - Gift books - 1846 - 120 pages
...rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread, And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some. Earth's cities had no sound nor tread, And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb. Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from the... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 342 pages
...rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some. Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb. XXXIX. ПАNTА TÙV yaía Svóсj)os iyi á\íro KavTU ye davelv àváyKa, Trplv \aßew ßvarov róSs... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some. Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb. XXXIX. ПАМТА TÙV yaía Svócf>os e) á\úa кavTеa 'ye вavsîv àváyiся, Trplv \aßeîv... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...rusted in their bony hands, — In plague and famine some. Earth's cities had no so"und or tread, And 'ships were drifting with the dead — • To shores where all was dumb ! P. Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sear leaves... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread, And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb ! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from the... | |
 | William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 pages
...rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some. Earth's cities had no sound nor tread, And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb. Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from the... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread : And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb! Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from the... | |
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