 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...had expired in fight, — the brands Still 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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1846 - 312 pages
...fight — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some ! Earth's citie^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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...brands Still 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1849 - 276 pages
...had expired in fight, — the brands Still 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 Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...had expired in fight — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships...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... | |
 | William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 pages
...had expired in fight, — the brands Still 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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread : And ships...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... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...brands1 Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound or 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 sere3 leaves... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...had expired in fight — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands ; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; And ships...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... | |
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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 tread, And ships were drifting with the dead To shores where all was dumb... 
