 And loathed to see them overtaxed; but she Did more, and underwent, and overcame, The woman of a thousand summers back, Godiva, wife to that grim earl who ruled In Coventry: for when he laid a tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children...  Bygone Warwickshire - Sida 85redigerad av - 1893 - 284 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1842 - 610 sidor
...tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children clamouring, " If we pay we starve ;" She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode...hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And pray'd him, "If they pay this tax, they starve.'' Whereat he stared, replying, half-amazed, " You would... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 sidor
...tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamouring, " If we pay, we starve ; " She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode...hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And pray'd him, " If they pay this tax, they starve." Whereat he stared, replying, half-amazed, " You would... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 sidor
...tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamouring, " If we pay, we starve " She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode...hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And pray'd him, " If they pay this tax, they starve." Whereat he stared, replying, half-amazed, " You would... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 sidor
...tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamouring, " If we pay, we starve! " She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode...hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And pray'd him, " If they pay this tax, they starve." Whereat he stared, replying, half-amazed, ' ' You... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 sidor
...brought Their children, clamouring, "If we pay, we starve;" 57 She sought her lord, and found him, whom he strode About the hall, among his dogs, alone, His...hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And pray'd him, " If they pay this tax, they starve." Whereat he stared, replying, half-amazed, " You would... | |
 | 1846 - 730 sidor
...tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children clamoring, " If we pay, we starve ;" She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode...this tax, they starve." Whereat he stared, replying, half-amazed, " You would not let your little finger ache For such as these ?" — " But I would die,"... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 sidor
...tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamouring, " If we pay, we starve ; " She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode...hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And pray'd him, " If they pay this tax, they starve." Whereat he stared, replying, half-amazed, " You would... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 sidor
...brought Their children, clamouring, "If we pay, we starve;" 57 She sought her lord, and found him, whom he strode About the hall, among his dogs, alone, His...hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And pray'd him, "If they pay this tax, they starve." Whereat he stared, replying, half-amazed, "You would... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 sidor
...tears, And pray'd him, " If they pay this tax, they starve." Whereat he stared, replying, half-amazed, " You would not let your little finger ache For such as these?" — " But I would die," said she. He laugh 'd, and swore by Peter and by Paul : Then fillip'd at the diamond in... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 sidor
...tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamouring, " If we pay, we starve! '' She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode About the hall, among his dogs, alone, His heard a foot before him, and his hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And pray'd him, "... | |
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