 | G. Dowse - English poetry - 1908
...fearful massacre followed, but she was ultimately defeated by Suetonius Paulinus, and slew herself. WHEN the British warrior queen, Bleeding from the...her country's gods ; Sage beneath a spreading oak 5 Sat the Druid, hoary chief; Every burning word he spoke Full of rage, and full of grief. ' Princess... | |
 | Christopher Stone - English poetry - 1908 - 187 pages
...from me, likewise my brothers three, And sent them to the cruel wars in High Germany.' XLVII Boadicea WHEN the British warrior Queen, Bleeding from the...mien, Counsel of her country's gods — Sage beneath the spreading oak Sat the Druid, hoary chief: Every burning word he spoke Full of rage, and full of... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 606 pages
...than what love bestows — Except that office clips it as it goes. W. COWPER. 271. BOADICEA : AN ODE WHEN the British warrior queen, Bleeding from the...! if our aged eyes Weep upon thy matchless wrongs, 'Tis because resentment ties All the terrors of our tongues. ' Rome shall perish — write that word... | |
 | Literature - 1910
...much resemblance of the past, Thy worn-out heart will break at last — My Mary I 320 BOADICEA: AN ODE WHEN the British warrior queen, Bleeding from the...! if our aged eyes Weep upon thy matchless wrongs, 'Tis because resentment ties All the terrors of our tongues. ' Rome shall perish — write that word... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1313 pages
...in the outward air again I fill'd with woes the passing wind. W. Blake Boadicea: An Ode "1 11 7HEN the British warrior queen, * * Bleeding from the Roman...! if our aged eyes Weep upon thy matchless wrongs, 'Tis because resentment ties All the terrors of our tongues. 1 Rome shall perish, — write that word... | |
 | English poetry - 1910
...With much resemblance of the past, Thy worn-out heart will break at last— My Mary! BOADICEA: AN ODE WHEN the British warrior queen, Bleeding from the...! if our aged eyes Weep upon thy matchless wrongs, 'Tis because resentment ties All the terrors of our tongues. ' Rome shall perish — write that word... | |
 | English poetry - 1910
...much resemblance of the past, Thy worn-out heart will break at last — My Mary ! $20 BOADICEA: AN ODE WHEN the British warrior queen, Bleeding from the...! if our aged eyes Weep upon thy matchless wrongs, 'Tis because resentment ties All the terrors of our tongues. 'Rome shall perish — write that word... | |
 | Alice D'Alcho - Queens - 1911 - 139 pages
...of her? Ah, it is a bold pen that can lightly attempt her story; words fail when we would tell how "The British warrior queen, Bleeding from the Roman rods, Sought with an indignant mien, Counsel from her country's gods." When reconciled to Arviragus and restored to her position of queen-consort,... | |
 | American poetry - 1912 - 3742 pages
...thee — Cleopatra — Rome — farewell ! William Haines Lytle [1826-1863] BOADICEA: AN ODE [62 AD] WHEN the British warrior queen, Bleeding from the..."Princess! if our aged eyes Weep upon thy matchless wrongs, 'Tis because resentment ties All the terrors of our tongues. "Rome shall perish :— write that word... | |
 | Francis Henry Gribble - Women - 1917 - 342 pages
...before one knew what the Germans were capable of. all the world is familiar with Cowper's famous lines : When the British warrior Queen, Bleeding from the...with an indignant mien Counsel of her country's gods. . . . And the Druid's prophetic response : Rome shall perish, — write that word In the blood that... | |
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Tis because resentment ties All the terrors of our tongues. Rome shall perish, — write that word In the blood that she has spilt ; Perish hopeless and abhorred, Deep in ruin as in guilt. 
