 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 páginas
...stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famished on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 páginas
...stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1861 - 372 páginas
...stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war, Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 páginas
...stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life ! Thy swains are famished on the rocks Where once they fed their... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 páginas
...stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 páginas
...stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, anil curses life. Thy swains are famisli'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 páginas
...stranger to the door; in smoky ruins sunk they lie, the monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees alar his all become the prey of war ; bethinks him of his babes and wife, then smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famished on the rocks, where once they fed their... | |
 | Cheltenham College - 1868 - 570 páginas
...stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1870 - 652 páginas
...stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees, afar, His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast and cursea life. Thy swains are famished on the rooks Where once they fed their wanton... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 páginas
...stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life ! Thy swains are famish 'd on the rocks Where once they fed their... | |
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Lie slaughter'd on their native ground ; Thy hospitable roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie. The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and... 
