Eirin weep, Ne'er again his likeness see ; Long her strains in sorrow steep, Strains of immortality ! Horror covers all the heath, Clouds of carnage blot the sun. Sisters, weave the web of death ; Sisters, cease ; the work is done. A Collection of Poems, in Four Volumes - Page 124by G. Pearch - 1775Full view - About this book
| Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1798 - 130 pages
...ample fway fhall ftretch O'er the plenty of the plain. 4o Low the dauntlefs earl is laid, Gor'dwith many a gaping wound: Fate demands a nobler head ; Soon a king fhall bite the ground. 44 Long his lofs frail Erin • weep, Ne'er again his likenefs fee ; Long her... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...its bleak domain, Soon their ample sway shall stretch O'er the plenty of the plain. Low the dauntless Earl is laid, Gor'd with many a gaping wound : Fate demands a nobler head ; Soon a King shall bite the ground. Long his loss shall Eirin weep (J)t Ne'er again his likeness see ; fd) Lrtng... | |
| History - 1800 - 614 pages
...They, whom once the defart-beach Pent within its .bleak domain» » Soon their ample fway mall ftrctch O'er the plenty of the plain. Low the dauntlefs Earl...gaping wound': Fate demands a nobler head ; Soon a King ihall bite ground. • Lnng his lofs (hall Eirin weep, Ne'er again his likenefs fee ; Long her ftrains... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...They, whom once the defcrt-beach Pent within its bleak domain, Soon their ample fway fhall itrctch O'er the plenty of the plain, Low the dauntlefs Earl is laid, Gor'd with many a gaping wound ! Fate demfnids a nobler head ; Soon a king fhall bite the ground. Long his lofs (hall Eirin weep, Ne'er again... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...its bleak domain, Soon their ample sway shall stretch O'er the plenty of the plain. Low the dauntless Earl is laid, Gor'd with many a gaping wound: Fate demands a nobler head; Soon a King shall bite the ground. Long his loss shall Eirin weep (d), Ne'er again his likeness see ; Long her... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...of war) They, whom once the defert-beach Pent within its bleak domain, Soon their ample fway fliall ftretch O'er the plenty of the plain, Low the dauntlefs Earl is laid, Oor'd with many a gap;ng wound : Fate demands a nobler head ; Soon a king ihall bite the ground. Long... | |
| Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 464 pages
...war.) 103 They, whom once the defert beach Rant within its bleak domain, Soon their ample fway fhall ftretch O'er the plenty of the plain. Low the dauntlefs Earl is laid, Gored with many a gaping wound Fate demands a nobler head ; Soon a King fhall bite the ground. his... | |
| Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 242 pages
...They, whom once the defert teach Pent within its bleak domain, Soon their ample fway fhall ftretcrh O'er the plenty of the plain. Low the dauntlefs Earl is laid, Gored with many a gaping wound : 'Fate demands a nobler head -, Soon a King fhall bite the ground.... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...its bleak domain, Soon their ample sway shall stretch O'er the plenty of the plain. Low the dauntless Earl is laid, Gor'd with many a gaping wound. Fate demands a nobler head ; Soon a King shall bite the ground. Long his loss shall Eirin weep, d Ne'er again his likeness see ; Long her strains... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 508 pages
...ample fway ihall ftretch O'er the plenty of the plain, Low the dauntlefs K.irl is laid, Cior'd \v*th many a gaping wound : Fate demands a nobler head ; Soon a 'king Ihall bite the ground. Long his lofs (hall Eirin weep, Ne'er again his likenefs fee ; Long her drains... | |
| |