 O'er a low couch the setting sun had thrown its latest ray, Where in his last strong agony a dying' warrior lay, The stern old Baron Rudiger, whose frame had ne'er been bent By wasting pain, till time and toil its iron strength had spent. "They come around...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 3601838Full view - About this book
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...wasting pain, till time and toil its iron strength had spent. ' They come around me here, and say my days of life are o'er, That I shall mount my noble steed...dared him oft before the Paynim spear, — Think ye he's entered at my gate, has come to seek me here ? I ve met him, faced him, scorned him, when the... | |
 | Theology - 1841 - 412 pages
...wasting pain, till time and toil its iron strength had spent. ' They come around me here, and say my days of life are o'er, That I shall mount my noble steed...dared him oft before the Paynim spear, — Think ye he's entered at my gate, has come to seek me here ? I ve met him, faced him, scorned him, when the... | |
 | Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - History - 1841 - 374 pages
...wasting pain, till time and toil its iron strength had spent* " They come around me here, and say my days of life are o'er, That I shall mount my noble steed...— that I, ha ! ha ! must die. And what is death ? I've dared him oft before the Paynim spear, — Think ye he's entered at my gate, has come to seek... | |
 | Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - History - 1841 - 362 pages
...wasting pain, till time and toil its iron strength had spent. " They come around me here, and say my days of life are o'er, That I shall mount my noble steed...tell me now, that I, Their own liege lord and master born,—that I, ha ! ha ! must die. And what is death ? I've dared him oft before the Paynim spear,—... | |
 | Fashion - 1841 - 544 pages
...pain, till time and toil its iron strength had spent. ' They come around me here, and say, my day* of life are o'er, That I shall mount my noble steed, and lead my band no more; They come, uud to my beard t heydarx to tell me DOW, that I, Their owu liege lord and muster born— that I, ah... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...wasting pain, till time and toil Its iron strength had spent. " They come around me here, and say My days of life are o'er, That I shall mount my noble steed And lead my hand no more ; They come, and to my beard they dare To tell me now, that I, Their own liege lord and... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 536 pages
...wasting pain, till time and toil Its iron strength had spent. " They come around me here, and say My days of life are o'er, That I shall mount my noble steed...tell me now, that I, Their own liege lord and master bom,— That I— ha! ha!— must die. " And what is death ? I've dared him oft Before the Paynim spear,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...wasting pain, till time and toil Its iron strength had spent. " They come around me here, and say My days of life are o'er, That I shall mount my noble steed...and to my beard they dare To tell me now, that I, Then- own liege lord and master born, — That I— ha! ha!— must die. " And what is death .' I 've... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...wasting pain, till time and toil its iron strength had " They come around me here, and say my days of life are o'er, That I shall mount my noble steed...that I, ha ! ha ! must— die ! And what is death ? I've dared him oft before the Paynim spear, — Think ye he's entered at my gate, has come to seek... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1845 - 538 pages
...wasting pain, till time and toil Its iron strength had spent. " They come around me here, and say My days of life are o'er, That I shall mount my noble steed...dared him oft Before the Paynim spear, — Think ye he's entered at my gate, Has come to seek me here ? I've met him, faced him, scorn'd him, When the... | |
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