The Spirit of the Old DominionShepherd & Pollard, 1827 - 293 頁 |
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appearance army Arnold awaiting Bacon battle of Trenton beloved beneath Benedict Arnold body bosom burst Carle Carmine cause Cavalier Champ Colonel Pyle commander commenced cottage countenance death deep desperate door Drumhead earth Edgar enemy enemy's escape excited exclaimed face faithful band fate father feelings fellow fire Flint Mills Flora Fosdyck gallant gave gazed glow Governor hand Haw river head heard heart honour horse horses hoofs hour Insurgent Chief Jamestown Jarvis Kanawha river lady Lee's legion legion length looked loud ment miserable morning Nathaniel Bacon neighbourhood never night officer once party Peaks of Otter prisoners rapidly rendered replied retired river scene seemed sergeant Sir William Berkeley slowly song soon sorrow spirit spot strange stranger sunk sword Tarleton Templeton Thornhill thought tink tion tone Tory traitor troops uncle Virginia voice whole wild young Mountaineer
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第 249 頁 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
第 293 頁 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might...
第 293 頁 - Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips ! His country's curse, his children's shame. Outcast of virtue, peace, and fame. May he, at last, with lips of flame On the parch'd desert thirsting die, — While lakes that shone in mockery nigh...
第 293 頁 - Be drugg'd with treacheries to the brim, — With hopes, that but allure to fly, With joys, that vanish while he sips, Like Dead- Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips...
第 64 頁 - BALQUHITHER. LET us go, lassie, go, To the braes o' Balquhither, Where the blaeberries grow 'Mang the bonnie Highland heather ; Where the deer and the rae, Lightly bounding together, Sport the lang summer day On the braes o
第 65 頁 - I'll cover it o'er Wi' the flowers o' the mountain ; I will range through the wilds, And the deep glens sae dreary, And return wi" their spoils To the bower o' my dearie. When the rude wintry win...
第 70 頁 - But she'll plague you, and vex you, Distract and perplex you ; False-hearted and ranging, Unsettled and changing, What then do you think, she is like ? Like a sand ? like a rock ? Like a wheel ? like a clock ? Ay, a clock that is always at strike.
第 92 頁 - Which like a pestilence sweeps the lower sky, Dreaded by every orb and planet nigh. This hath my father heard. Oh ! Marcian, He is a worldly and a cruel man, And made me once a victim ; but again It shall not be. I have had too much of pain, Too much for such short hours as life affords, And I would fain from out the golden hoards Of joy, pluck Some fair ornament, at last, To gild my life with — but my life hath past.
第 293 頁 - ... Outcast of virtue, peace, and fame. May he, at last, with lips of flame On the parch'd desert thirsting die, — While lakes that shone in mockery nigh Are fading off...
第 64 頁 - twas wild and grand, The praise of hearts that scorn the world's control, Disdaining all but Love's delicious band, The chain of gold and flowers, the tie of soul.