 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1875
...shake, uushocked, Because I could have smiled to see The death that would have set me free. VII. 1 said my nearer brother pined, I said his mighty heart...the moat, Our bread was such as captives' tears Have moistened many a thousand years, Since man first pent his fellow-men Like brutes within au iron den... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 543 pages
...shake, unshocked ; Because I could have smiled to see The death that would have set me free. VIL I said my nearer brother pined ; I said his mighty heart...He loathed and put away his food ; It was not that 'twas coarse and rude, For we were used to hunter's fare. And for the like had little care. The milk... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1875
...shake, unshocked, Because I could have smiled to see The death that would have set me free. VII. 1 said my nearer brother pined, I said his mighty heart...declined, He loathed and put away his food ; It was not that't was coarse and rude, For we were used to hunter's fare, And for the like had little care : The... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875
...and wolf j To him this dungeon was a gulf, And fetter'd feet the worst of ills. V. I said my nearest brother pined, I said his mighty heart declined ;...loathed and put away his food — It was not that 'twas coarse and rude, , For we were used to hunter's fare, And for the like had little care : The... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - Elocution - 1878 - 414 pages
...they of yore were wont to be ; It might be fancy — but to me They never sounded like our own. ni. I said my nearer brother pined , I said his mighty heart...the moat; Our bread was such as captives' tears Have moistened many a thousand years, Since man first pent his fellow-men. Like brutes, within an iron den.... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878
...As they of yore were wont to be ; It might be fancy — but to me They never sounded like our own. I said my nearer brother pined, I said his mighty heart...the moat; Our bread was such as captives' tears Have moistened many a thousand years, Since man first pent his fellow-men. Like brutes, within an iron den.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - Bounty Mutiny, 1789 - 1878 - 836 pages
...loathed and put away his food : It was not that 'twas coarse and rude, For we were used to hunters' fare, And for the like had little care: The milk drawn...moat ; Our bread was such as captives' tears Have moisten'd many a thousand years, Smce man first pent his fellow-men Like brutes within an iron den... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 28 pages
...felt it shake, unshocked; Because I could have smiled to see The death that would have set me free. I said my nearer brother pined ; I said his mighty heart...food ; It was not that 't was coarse and rude, For we wero used to hunter's fare, And for the like had little care. The milk drawn from the mountain goat... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1879
...brother pined, I said his mighty heart declined, He loathed and put away his food; It was not that 'twas coarse and rude, For we were used to hunter's fare,...the moat, Our bread was such as captives' tears Have moisten'd many a thousand years, Since man first pent his fellow men Like brutes within an iron den;... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879
...and put away his food ; It was not that 'twas coarse and rude, For we were used to hunter's fare, 130 And for the like had little care : The milk drawn...the moat, Our bread was such as captives' tears Have moisten'd many a thousand years, 135 Since man first pent his fellow men Like brutes within an iron... | |
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t was coarse and rude, For we were used to hunter's fare, And for the like had little care: The milk drawn from the mountain goat Was changed for water from the moat, Our bread was such as captives... 
