 In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall...  The Practical Teacher - Page cxcii1884Full view - About this book
 | Marcus Davis Gilman - Printing - 1897 - 370 pages
...but will serve for the adjacent States. View of Morgan, as confined in the dungeon at Fort Niagara. Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends — nor sacred home ! " In our boasted Republic, the blood of an American, who was taken from his home, bound, tortured,... | |
 | Costume - 1832 - 372 pages
...demand their sire With lears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wlfit, nor children, more shall he hehold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly...inmost vitals creeping cold, Lays him along the snows a stiffen'd corse, Stretch'd out and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah ! little think the gay licentious... | |
 | Costume - 1831 - 364 pages
...in it. THE WESTERN TRAVELLERS. THE %VJ,:*TEK* TRAVELLERS. Alas! Nor wife nor children more dull be behold, Nor friends nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly winter seizes ; shula up sense ; And o'er hia inmost vitals, creeping cold, Lays him along the snow a stiffened corse,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold....Stretched out, and bleaching in the Northern blast. JAMES THOMSON. JAMES THOMSON. THE SNOW-STORM. (From "Snow-Bound.") WNWARNED by any sunset light, The... | |
 | English Orators - 1899 - 616 pages
...children—that you had seen the olive branch sent into his little ark, but no sign that the waters had subsided. "Alas! Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home!" No seraph mercy unbars his dungeon, and leads him forth to light and life, but the minister of death... | |
 | William Forsyth - Abernethy and Kincardine (Scotland : Parish) - 1900 - 488 pages
...words of Thomson, slightly altered, may be quoted — " Alas ! nor child, nor husband more shall she behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly winter seizes, shuts up the sense,1 And o'er her inmost vitals, creeping cold. Lays her along the snow, a stiffen'd corse,... | |
 | Orators - 1900 - 496 pages
...that you had seen the olive branch sent into his little ark, but no sign that the waters had subsided. "Alas! Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home ! " No seraph mercy unbars his dungeon, and leads him forth to light and life, but the minister of... | |
 | Poetry - 1901 - 106 pages
...children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire,' With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold,...Stretched out, and bleaching in the northern blast. HYMN TO GOD'S POWEK. HAIL ! Power Divine, who by thy sole command, From the dark empty space, Made... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Wh Mecca Caravan. Breathed hot From all the boundless furnace of the sky, And the wide glittering waste... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he !>ehold. Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly...Stretched out, and bleaching in the northern blast. The Mecca Caravan. Breathed hot From all the boundless furnace of the sky, And the wide glittering waste... | |
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