 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 520 pages
...cauld hand held a light." But when I came to the succeeding lines, my blood ran cold within me : " A knife a father's throat had mangled, (( Whom his ain son of life bereft j (c The gray hairs yet stuck to the heft." And And here, after the two following lines, " Wi' mair... | |
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 266 pages
...wee,* unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape,6 Wi' his last gasp his gab T did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi blude' red-rusted, Five scymitars,...a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain ' son o' life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack 10 to the heft;" Wi' mair" o' horrible and awefu', Which ev'n... | |
 | David Irving - English poetry - 1804 - 524 pages
...j Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted j Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter which a bab had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft ; The grey hairs yet stack to the heft. The songs of Burns, which are chiefly of the... | |
 | James Sargant Storer, John Greig (engraver) - Scotland - 1805 - 112 pages
...new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp, his" gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi' blude red .rusted ; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which...knife, a father's throat had mangled. Whom his ain son o'life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack to the heft: \Vi' mair o" horrible and awfu', Which e'en to... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pages
...bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted ; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted ;...knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The grey hairg yet stack to the heft ; Wi' Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu*, Which ev'n... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 506 pages
...his cauld hand held a light." But when I came to the succeeding lines, my blood ran cold within me: " A knife a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son of life bereft ; The grey hairs yet stack to the heft." And here, after the two following lines, " Wi' mair o' horrible... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' blnde red-rusted ; Five scimitars, wi' murder crnsted , A garter, which a babe had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack to the heft; Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which ev'n to... | |
 | Scottish uses - Scottish poetry - 1808 - 228 pages
...span-lang, wee, unchristen'd hairns 5 A thief new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted ; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter which a habe had strangled, A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The grey... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted; Five scymitars,...knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack to the heft : Wi' mair o' horrible and awefu' Which ev'n to... | |
 | 1812 - 140 pages
...span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns . A thief new cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted ; Five scymitars,...knife a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack to the heft : Wi' mair o' horrible an' awfu', Which ev'n to... | |
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Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted; Five scimitars, wi' murder crusted; A garter, which a babe had strangled; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o... 
