 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 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, Kre ceased the inhuman shout... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low: And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow ith «ome hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 916 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 And now the arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And thro' 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - Rome (Italy) - 1845 - 230 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 ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceas'd the inhuman shout... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - American literature - 1845 - 448 pages
...— 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... | |
 | Gift - 1846 - 268 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,... | |
 | Animals - 1846 - 236 pages
...agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low : And through his sides 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually lowAm! 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... 
