 | Languages, Modern - 1909 - 524 pages
...an enumeration of the occupations of the character group which is in the background of both poems, We tore the tarry rope to shreds With blunt and bleeding nails; We rubbed the doors, we scrubbed the floors, And cleaned the shining railg: RG III 43—46. The helmsman steered, the ship... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Imprisonment - 1899 - 104 pages
...we knew we were The Devil's Own Brigade : And shaven head and feet of lead Make a merry masquerade. We tore the tarry rope to shreds With blunt and bleeding...shining rails : And, rank by rank, we soaped the plank, fc i8 We sewed the sacks, we broke the stones, We turned the dusty drill : We banged the tins, and... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Imprisonment - 1901 - 40 pages
...Parade! We did not care: we knew we were The Devil's Own Brigade: And shaven head and feet of lead With blunt and bleeding nails; We rubbed the doors, and scrubbed the floors, We tore the tarry rope to shreds And cleaned the shining rails: And, rank by rank, we soaped the plank,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1905 - 618 pages
...the floors, And cleaned the «Inning rails : Anil rnnk brrank, we >o:»|>ed the plunk, And cluttered with the pails. We sewed the sacks, we broke the stones, We turned the dusty drill ; We iNinged the tins, and Imwled the hymn', And sweated on the mill : But in the heart of every mm Terror... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - English poetry - 1906 - 60 pages
...we knew we were The Devil's Own Brigade: And shaven head and feet of lead Make a merry masquerade. We tore the tarry rope to shreds With blunt and bleeding...dusty drill: We banged the tins, and bawled the hymns, So still it lay that every day Crawled like a weed-clogged wave: And we forgot the bitter lot That... | |
 | Romanian literature - 1906 - 548 pages
...stînge, cel ce a fost Oscar Wilde continua a träi în mizerabilul «ocnas No. 33» din Reading : «We tore the tarry rope to shreds «With blunt and bleeding nails... «We sewed the sake, we broke the stones «We turned the dusty drill ; «We banged the tins, and bawled... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 378 pages
...of lead Make a merry masquerade. Wo tore the tarry rope to shreds With blunt and bleeding nails; Wo rubbed the doors, and scrubbed the floors. And cleaned...we soaped the plank, And clattered with the pails. Wo sewed the sacks, we broke the stones, We turned the dusty drill : \Vr limited the tins, and bawled... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 366 pages
...Own Brigade : And shaven head and feet of lead Make a merry masquerade. We tore the tarry rope . -eds With blunt and bleeding nails; We rubbed the doors,...the shining rails : And, rank by rank, we soaped the Hank, And clattered with the pails We sewed the sacks, we broke the stones, We turned the dusty drill... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Capital punishment - 1910 - 112 pages
...we knew we were The Devil's Own Brigade : And shaven head and feet of lead Make a merry masquerade. We tore the tarry rope to shreds With blunt and bleeding...cleaned the shining rails : And, rank by rank, we soaked the plank, And clattered with the pails. We sewed the sacks, we broke the stones, We turned... | |
 | Walter Winston Kenilworth - 1912 - 136 pages
...accursed him, he was staggered. Yet, in the terrible confinement of those prison-months when, as he says : "We tore the tarry rope to shreds With blunt and bleeding...we soaped the plank And clattered with the pails." yet, in those terrible hours we have glimpses of his resoluteness of soul. We find him heart-broken... | |
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Make a merry masquerade. We tore the tarry rope to shreds With blunt and bleeding nails; We rubbed the doors, and scrubbed the floors, And cleaned the shining rails: And, rank by rank, we soaped the plank, And clattered with the pails. We... 
