 Led by thy conquering genius, Greene, The Britons they compelled to fly; None distant viewed the fatal plain, None grieved, in such a cause to die — But, like the Parthian, famed of old, Who, flying, still their arrows threw, These routed Britons, full...  The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution - Sida 104efter Philip Morin Freneau - 1902Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Samuel Kettell - 1829 - 412 sidor
...flying, still their arrows threw ; These routed Britons, full as bold, Retreated, and retreating slew. Now rest in peace our patriot band ; Though far from...a happier land, A brighter sunshine of their own.. PORT ROYAI,. HERE, by the margin of the murmuring While her proud remnants I explore in vain, And lonely... | |
 | Samuel Kettell - 1829 - 412 sidor
...flying, still their arrows threw ; These routed Britons, full as bold, Retreated, and retreating slew. Now rest in peace our patriot band ; Though far from...a happier land, A brighter sunshine of their own. PORT ROYAL. HERE, by the margin of the murmuring main, While her proud remnants I explore in vain,... | |
 | William McCarty - 1842 - 482 sidor
...flying, still their arrows threw; These routed Britons, full as bold, Retreated and retreating slew. Now rest in peace, our patriot band ; Though far from...a happier land, A brighter sunshine of their own. 31 TO THE AMERICANS On the rumoured approach of the Hessian forces, Waideckers, &c.; occasioned by... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 sidor
...Retreated, and retreating slew. Now rest in peac«, our patriot band ; Though far from Nature's limii . thrown, We trust they find a happier land, A brighter sunshine of their own. TO AN OLD MAN. WHT, dotard, wouldst thou longer groan Beneath a weight of years and wo ; Thy youth... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 558 sidor
...hot, 'tis now too cold — To live, is nothing but to grieve. How bright the mom her course begun ! Now rest in peace, our patriot band ; Though far from...a happier land, A brighter sunshine of their own. No mists hedimm'd the solar sphere ; The clouds arise — they shade the sun, For nothing can he constant... | |
 | One of 'em - 1855 - 340 sidor
...flying, still their arrows threw , These routed Britons, full as bold, Retreated, and retreating slew. Now rest in peace, our patriot band : Though far from...a happier land, A brighter sunshine of their own. PATRICK HENRY, BEFORE A CONVENTION OF DELEGATES, VIRGINIA. * MR. HENRY arose with a majesty unusual... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 sidor
...flying, still their arrows threw ; These routed Britons, full as bold, Retreated, and retreating slew. the next afternoon Л brighter sunshine of their own. INDIAN DEATH-SONG. TUE sun sets at night and the stars shun the... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 sidor
...and the deer a shade. There is also a line of Sir Walter Scott which has its prototype in Freneau. In the introduction to the third canto of Marmion, in the apostrophe to the Duke of Brunswick, we read — Lamented chief 1 — not thine the power To save in that presumptuous hour, When Prussia... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 704 sidor
...flying, still their arrows threw ; These routed Britons, full as bold, Retreated, and retreating slew. Now rest in peace, our patriot band; Though far from...a happier land, A brighter sunshine of their own. OX THX XKltOltABLE VICTORY Obtained by the gallant Captain. John Paid Janet of the Son Ifomme Richard,... | |
 | Philip Morin Freneau - 1861 - 394 sidor
...flying, still their arrows threw ; These routed Britons, full as bold, Retreated, and retreating slew. Now rest in peace, our patriot band ; Though far from...thrown, We trust they find a happier land, A brighter Phoebus of their own. PLATO, THE PHILOSOPHER, TO HIS FRIEND THEON. Semel omnibus caleanda via Lethi.... | |
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