 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1838 - 332 pages
...agony ; And his droop'd head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him, — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Rome - 1839 - 590 pages
...agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — • And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman sound... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - Italy - 1839 - 394 pages
...agony ; And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 424 pages
...agony ; And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1848 - 550 pages
...conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low. And through his side his last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, 'Ere ceased the inhuman shout... | |
 | 536 pages
...agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low— And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone Ere ceased the inhuman shout which... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - Art - 1840 - 64 pages
...conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low, And through his side the last drops ebbing slow, From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower; but now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1841 - 464 pages
...agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low,— And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him—he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which... | |
 | George W. Burnap - Women - 1841 - 288 pages
...agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which... | |
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I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like... 
