 With a stifled cry of horror straight she turned away her head ; With a sad and bitter feeling looked she back upon her dead : But she heard the youth's low moaning, and his struggling breath of pain ; And she raised the cooling water to his parching...  Poems - Page 311by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...horror, straight she turned away her head ; With a sad and bitter feeling looked she back upon her dead ; But she heard the youth's low moaning, and his struggling...supplied ! With her kiss upon his forehead, "Mother!" murmered he, and died ! " A bitter curse upon them, poor boy, who led thee forth, From some gentle,... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...horror, straight she turned away her head ; With a sad and bitter feeling looked she back upon her dead ; But she heard the youth's low moaning, and his struggling...supplied ! With her kiss upon his forehead, "Mother!" murmered he, and died ! " A bitter curse upon them, poor boy, who led thee forth, From some gentle,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1855 - 436 pages
...• >r .=• ... ,\\j •••" ! .. ' With a sad and bitter feeling looked she back upon her dead ; But she heard the youth's low moaning, and his struggling...her woman's heart supplied ; With her kiss upon his jprehead, " Mother ! " murmured he, and died! " A bitter curse upon them, poor boy, who led thee forth,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Love poetry - 1858 - 420 pages
...horror straight she turned away her head ; With a sad and bitter feeling looked she back upon her dead ; But she heard the youth's low moaning, and his struggling...face his mother's? did she watch beside her child 1 All his stranger words with meaning her woman's heart supplied; With her kiss upon his forehead,... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Readers - 1859 - 356 pages
...horror straight she turned away her head ; With a sad and bitter feeling looked she back upon her dead ; But she heard the youth's low moaning, and his struggling...raised the cooling water to his parching lips again. "A bitter curse upon them, boy, who to battle led thee forth, From some gentle, saddened mother, weeping... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...sisters, and my little brother Gone to God I Oft the aislo of that old church we trod. RALPH HOYT. Whispered low the dying soldier, pressed her hand...meaning her woman's heart supplied; With her kiss upon bis forehead, "Mother!" murmured he, and died 1 WHITTIER. What quickeneth thy prayer when it seeks... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...youth's low moaning, and his struggling breath of pain, And she raised the cooling water to his parched lips again. Whispered low the dying soldier, pressed...smiled. Was that pitying face his mother's ? did she wateh beside her child ? All his stranger words with meaning her woman's heart supplicd ; With her... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1866 - 122 pages
...horror straight she turned away her head ; With a sad and bitter feeling looked she back upon her dead ; But she heard the youth's low moaning, and his struggling...face his mother's ? did she watch beside her child 1 All his stranger words with meaning her woman's heart supplied ; With her kiss upon his forehead,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1866 - 526 pages
...And she raised the cooling water to his parched lips again. Whispered low the dying soldier, prossed her hand, and faintly smiled, Was that pitying face...his mother's ? did she watch beside her child? All Ms stranger words with meaning her woman's heart supplied; With her kiss upon his forehead, " Mother... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...horror straight she turned away her head ; With a sad and bitter feeling looked she back upon her dead ; But she heard the youth's low moaning, and his struggling...stranger words with meaning her woman's heart supplied ; " A bitter curse upon them, poor boy, who led thee forth, From some gentle, sad-eyed mother, weeping,... | |
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