 That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm With banquet song and dance and wine, — And thou art terrible...  Alnwick Castle: With Other Poems - Page 19by Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1836 - 98 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - American periodicals - 1825 - 502 pages
...the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine — And thou art terrible : the tear, .The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agdfty, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, And thou art terrible : the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And...all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. 5 But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...breath;— With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, And thou art terrible : the tear, The groan, the knel], the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. 5 But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 420 pages
...bier,And all we know, or dream, Oc fear '• Of agony, are thine. • » .'•. 5 But to the h0ro, when his sword Has won the battle for the -free, Thy voice sounds like \ prophet's word, ' And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Bozzaris !... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine; And thou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And...all we know, or dream, or fear, Of agony, are thine. 3ut to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, And thou art terrible: the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And...all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. 5 But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's... | |
 | Gift books - 1832 - 324 pages
...may well say to him, in the words of our gifted countryman, Halleck, — ' Thou art terrible ; the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And...all we know or dream or fear Of agony, are thine.' There is something inconceivably awful in standing on the shore of time, and endeavouring in vain to... | |
 | Gift books - 1832 - 320 pages
...countryman, Halleck, — ' Thou art terrible ; the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the hier, And all we know or dream or fear Of agony, are thine.' There is something inconceivably awful in standing on the shore of time, and endeavouring in vain to... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...heart beats high and warm, With banquet song, and dance, and wine ¡ And thou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier ; And...all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. Granting, however, to Marco Bozzaris, the minor excellences we have pointed out, we should be doing... | |
 | American poetry - 1834 - 402 pages
...heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, — And thou art terrible : the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's... | |
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