 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 oldal
...things The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands Blew for a little life, and made a flame Which was a mockery ; then they lifted up Bach other's aspects—saw, and shriek'd, and died, Their eyes as.it grew lighter, and beheld Ev'n... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 oldal
...answered not with a caress, — he died. I 242 SEW YORK SPEAKER. The crowd was famished by degrees ; but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they...dying embers of an altar-place, • Where had been heaped a mass of holy things For an unholy usage ; they raked up, And, shivering, scraped, with their... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 oldal
...cry, licking the hand Which answered not with a caress— he died. The crowd was famished by degrees ; but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they...The dying embers of an altar-place, Where had been heaped a mass of holy things For an unholy usage ; they raked up, And shivering scraped with their... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 oldal
...licking the hand Which answer' d not with a caress — he died. 4. The crowd was famish'd by degrees. But two Of an enormous city did survive, And they...unholy usage. They raked up, And, shivering, scraped, wifh their cold, skeleton hands, The feeble ashes ; and their feeble breath Blew for a little life,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 698 oldal
...enormous city did survive, And they were encmies : they met beside The dying embers of au altar place Where had been heap'da mass of holy things For an...and their feeble breath Blew for a little life, and mado a flame Which was a mockery; then they lifted up Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld Each... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 696 oldal
...cry, licking the hand Which answer'd not with a caress — he died. The crowd was famish'd by degrees; but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they...were enemies : they met beside The dying embers of an altar place Where had been heap'da ma.,s of holy things For an unholy usage; they raked up And shivering... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 712 oldal
...cry , lickmg the hand Which answerM not with a caress — he died. The crowd was famish'd by degrees; but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they were enemies : they met beside The dying embers of au altar place Where had been heap'dan,a -s of holy things For an unholy usage; they raked up And shivering... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 oldal
...licking the hand Which answered not with a caress — he died. 4. The crowd was famished by degrees. But two Of an enormous city did survive, And they...The dying embers of an altar-place, "Where had been heaped a mass of holy things For an unholy usage. They raked up, And, shivering, scraped with their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 452 oldal
...licking the hand Which answered not with a caress — he died. The crowd was famished by degrees ; but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they...The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heaped a mass of holy things For an unholy usage ; they raked up, And shivering scraped with their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 oldal
...licking the hand Which answer'd not with a caress — he died. The crowd was famish'd by degrees ; but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they...met beside The dying embers of an altar-place Where bad been heap'da mass of holy things For an unholy usage ; they raked up, And shivering scraped with... | |
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And they were enemies; they met beside The dying embers of an altar-place Where had been heap'da mass of holy things For an unholy usage; they raked up, And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew... 
