 | Sallie A. Brock - United States - 1869 - 666 pages
...bade good bye, Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye; "I'll write, if spared ;" there was news of a fight. But none of Giffen! he did not write ! I sometimes fancy that when I'm king, And my gallant courtiers form a ring, All so thoughtless of power and pelf, And each... | |
 | Francis Orray Ticknor - Poetry, American - 1879 - 164 pages
...bade good-by, Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye. " /'// write, if spared !" There was news of the fight ; But none of Giffen. — He did not write. I sometimes fancy that, were I king Of the princely Knights of the Golden Ring, With the song of the minstrel in mine ear, And the tender legend... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...bade good-by, Dimmed tbeglintof his steel-blue eye, " I'll teritc, if spared!'' There was news of the fight; But none of Giffen. He did not write. I sometimes fancy that, were I king Of the princely knights of the golden ring, With the song of the minstrel in mine ear, And the tender legend... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - Poetry - 1886 - 362 pages
...up and away. A tear, his first, as he bade good-by, Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye ; " / 'II write, if spared." There was news of £ fight, But...did not write ! I sometimes fancy that were I king With the song of the minstrel in mine ear, And the tender legend that trembles here, I'd give the best,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - Poetry - 1886 - 352 pages
...bade good-by, Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye ; " I'll write, if spared." There was news of a fight, But none of Giffen. He did not write ! I sometimes fancy that were I king Of the princely knights of the Golden Ring, With the song of the minstrel in mine ear, And the tender legend... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1889 - 524 pages
...bade good-by, Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye. " I'll write if spared." There was news of the fight, But none of Giffen. — He did not write. I sometimes fancy that were I king * Of the princely Knights of the Golden Ring, With the song of 'the minstrel in mine ear, And the tender legend... | |
 | George Cary Eggleston - American poetry - 1889 - 538 pages
...glint of his steel-blue eye ; " I 'll write, if spared." There was news of a fight, But none of Giflen. He did not write ! I sometimes fancy that were I king Of the princely knights of the Golden Ring, With the song of the minstrel in mine ear, And the tender legend... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 706 pages
...his steel-blue eye. " I'll write, if spared! " There was news of the fight; But none of Giffeu.—He did not write. I sometimes fancy that, were I king Of the princely Knights of the Golden Ring, With the song of the minstrel in mine ear, And the tender legend... | |
 | Readers - 1892 - 396 pages
...bade good-bye, Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye. " I'll write if spared." There was news of the fight, But none of Giffen — he did not write. I sometimes fancy that were I king Of the princely knights of the golden ring, With the song of the minstrel in mine ear, And the tender legend... | |
 | Jennie Thornley Clarke - American literature Southern States - 1896 - 396 pages
...his steel-blue eye. " I'll write, if spared !'' There was news of the fight; But none of Giffen.—He did not write. I sometimes fancy that, were I king Of the princely Knights of the Golden Ring, With the song of the minstrel in mine ear, And the tender legend... | |
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I'll write, if spared!" There was news of the fight: But none of Giffen — he did not write. I sometimes fancy that, were I king Of the princely knights of the Golden Ring, With the song of the minstrel in mine ear, And the tender legend that trembles... 
