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" Spilt blood enough to swim in : We orphaned many children, And widowed many women. The eagles and the ravens We glutted with our foemen : The heroes and the cravens, The spearmen and the bowmen. We brought away from battle, And much their land bemoaned... "
Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged - Page 304
1829
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 1

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1837 - 684 pages
...then, in strife bewildering, Spilt blood enough to swim in ; We orphaned many children, (chilJtring) And widowed many women. The eagles and the ravens We glutted with the foemeii; Their heroes and their cravens, Their lancers and their bowmen. As for Santa Anna, their...
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A word to the working classes on their improvement and elevation: with other ...

J. Russom - Pacifism - 1850 - 156 pages
...there, in strife bewild'ring, Spilt blood enough to swim in. We orphan'd many children, And widowqd many women. The eagles and the ravens, We glutted...heroes and the cravens, The spearmen and the bowmen." Orders were now issued, directing the regiment to march to the port of embarkation for India— that...
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The Intermediate Standard Speaker: Containing Pieces for Declamation in ...

Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...Some sacked his house and cellars, While others cut his head off. We there in strife bewildering Spilt blood enough to swim in; We orphaned many children,...the bowmen. We brought away from battle — And much the hind bemoaned them — Three thousand head of cattle, And the head of him who owned them : —...
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The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems ..., Volume 2

Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 498 pages
...sacked his house and cellars, While others cut his head off. ^Ve there, in strife bewildering, Spilt blood enough to swim in : We orphaned many children,...heroes and the cravens. The spearmen and the bowmen. \Ve brought away from battle, And much their land bemoaned them, Two thousand head of cattle. And the...
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London Society, Volume 27

James Hogg, Florence Marryat - Periodicals - 1875 - 633 pages
...; Aud ere our force we led off, Some sacked his house and cellars, While others cut his head off. 1 We brought away from battle, And much their land bemoaned...head of cattle, And the head of him who owned them: Kdnyfcd, King of Dyfed, His head was borne before us ; His wine and beasts supplied our feasts, Aud...
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...sacked his house and cellars, While others cut his head off. We there, in strife bewildering, Spilt blood enough to swim in : We orphaned many children,...the head of him who owned them : Ednyfed, King of Dyf ed, His head was borne before us ; His wine and beasts supplied our feasts, And his overthrow our...
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The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and ..., Volume 3

Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 364 pages
...pillars, And ere our force we led off, Some sacked his house and cellars, While others cut his head off. " We brought away from -battle, And much their land...them, Two thousand head of cattle, And the head of him that owned them. Ednyfed, King of Dyfed, His head was borne before us ; His wine and beasts supplied...
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The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and ..., Volume 3

Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 420 pages
...pillars, And ere our force we led off, Some sacked his house and cellars, While others cut his head off. " We brought away from battle, And much their land bemoaned...them, Two thousand head of cattle, And the head of him that owned them. Ednyfed, King of Dyfed, His head was borne before us ; His wine and beasts supplied...
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The Cambrian, Volumes 10-11

Welsh - 1890 - 830 pages
...expedition, We met a host and greeted it, We forced a strong position And killed the men who held it. We brought away from battle. And much their land bemoaned...head of cattle And the head of him who owned them, Ednyved king of Dyred, His head was borne before us. His wine and beasts supplied our feasts. And his...
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Under the Evening Lamp

Richard Henry Stoddard - Poets, English - 1892 - 312 pages
...widowed many women. The eagles and the ravens We glutted with our foemen : The heroes and the craven, The spearmen and the bowmen. We brought away from...head of cattle, And the head of him who owned them ! Endyfed, King of Dyfed, His head was borne before us ; His wine and beasts supplied our feasts, And...
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