| William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - American periodicals - 1825 - 506 pages
...his monarch's signet ring, — Then pressed that monarch's throne, — a king ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird. At midnight,...the forest shades, Bozzaris ranged his Suliote band, Trae as the steel of their tried blades, Heroes in heart and hand. There had the Persian's thousands... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - American periodicals - 1825 - 502 pages
...his monarch's signet ring, — Then pressed that monarch's throne, — a king ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird. At midnight, in the forest shades, I'n//, 1 1 i. ranged his Suliote band, True as the steel of their tried blades, Heroes in heart and... | |
| Janus - 1826 - 568 pages
...wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird. At midnight,...stood, There had the glad earth drunk their blood * Originally published in the New Times. On old Plataea's day ; And now there breathed that haunted... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - Alnwick Castle - 1827 - 76 pages
...his monarch's signet ring : Then pressed that monarch's throne, — a king ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird. At midnight,...There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Platsea's day ; And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquered there, With... | |
| 1829 - 436 pages
...his monarch's signet ring : Then press'd that monarch's throne, — a king ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird. At midnight,...There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Platea's day ; And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquer'd there, With... | |
| Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 432 pages
...breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquer'd there, With arm to strike, and soul to dare, Heroes in heart and hand. There had the Persian's...stood, There had the glad earth drunk their blood That bright dream was his last ; He woke—to hear his sentries shriek, " To arms ! they come ! the... | |
| Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...wore his monarch's signet ring : Then prcss'd that monarch's throne — a king ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird. At midnight, in the forest shades, True as the steel of their tried blades, Heroes in heart and hand. There had the Persian's thousands... | |
| Joseph Rodman Drake - Literary Criticism - 1835 - 226 pages
...his monarch's signet ring : Then pressed that monarch's throne, — a king ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird. At midnight,...There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Platsea's day ; And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquered there, With... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne—a king; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird. At midnight...There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Piatsea's day : And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquered there, With... | |
| Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...wore his monarch's signet ring : Then pressed that monarch's throne — a king; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird. At midnight,...There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Platsea's day ; And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquered there, With... | |
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