 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...Split — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some ! Earth's cities hud 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 404 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... | |
 | Scottish ballads and songs - 1854 - 606 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 508 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1854 - 608 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 Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 396 pages
...had expired in fight, — the brand* 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... | |
 | Scotland. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.] - English poetry - 1856 - 602 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 Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from... | |
 | William Ross Wallace - Death - 1856 - 192 pages
...brands 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 I Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood, "With dauntless words and high, That shook the sear 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... 
