Lie slaughter'd on their native ground ; Thy hospitable roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie. The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and... The Union: Or Select Scots and English Poems - Page 62by Thomas Warton - 1753 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
| English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. J-.., The wretched owner sees afar • His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, Where once they. fed their... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famish 'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
| John Cordy Jeaffreson - English fiction - 1858 - 426 pages
...stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famished on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
| Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1861 - 372 pages
...stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war, Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
| Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life ! Thy swains are famished on the rocks Where once they fed their... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, anil curses life. Thy swains are famisli'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...stranger to the door; in smoky ruins sunk they lie, the monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees alar his all become the prey of war ; bethinks him of his babes and wife, then smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famished on the rocks, where once they fed their... | |
| Cheltenham College - College verse - 1868 - 570 pages
...stranger to the door ; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life. Thy swains are famish'd on the rocks, Where once they fed their... | |
| |