 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 pages
...humbler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal-arch he pass'd, 10 Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft roll'd back the tide of war, But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The Duchess* mark'd his weary pace, His... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step at last, The embattl'd portal-arch lie pass'd, Whose pondrous grate and massy bar Had oft roll'd back the tide of war, But never clos'd the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The Dutchess mark'd his weary pace, His... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1831 - 582 pages
...No humbler resting-place was nigh. With lir-.ii. i mi;; step, at last, The embattled portal-arch lie pass'd. Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft roll'd back the tide of war, But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The duchess' inark'd hi* weary pace,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...eye — No humbler resting-place was nigh, With hesitating step at last, The embattled portal arch he But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The Duchess3 marked his weary pace, His... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...— No humbler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal-arch he pass'd, Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft roll'd back the tide of war, But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The duchess marked his weary pace, His... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1845 - 382 pages
...eye — No humbler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step at last, The embattled portal arch he pass'd, Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft roll'd back the tide of war, But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The Duchess1 marked his weary pace, His... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...— No humbler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal-arch he pass'd, Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft roll'd back the tide of war, But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The duchess marked his wearv pace, His... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pages
...eye — No humbler resting-place was nigh ; With hesitating step at last The embattled portal arch he pass'd, Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft roll'd back the tide of war, But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The Duchess marked his weary pace, His... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...eye— No humbler resting place was nigh. With hesitating step, at last, The embattled portal-arch he nd ghastly corpses load the ground, Cheer up, cheer up! Where groan'd the field But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The dutchess* mark'd his weary pace,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...eye — No humbler resting-place was nigh. With hesitating step at last The embattled portal arch he pass'd, Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft roll'd back the tide of war, But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The duchess marked his weary pace, His... | |
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Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft roll'd back the tide of war, But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The Duchess... 
