 I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like...  Childe Harold's pilgrimage, a romaunt. Campe's ed - Sida 224efter George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Miley - 1843 - 382 sidor
...manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low, And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone ! Ere ceased the inhuman shout which... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1843 - 616 sidor
...agouy, And his droop M head sinks gradually low— And through his aide the last drops, ebbing Blow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and uow The arena swimi around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 sidor
...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low— And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red...first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 sidor
...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow • From the...first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Kre ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won He heard it,... | |
 | 1842 - 572 sidor
...illustration suggested by thought or perception of analogies purely intellectual : — "And through his side the last drops ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower." Nothing can be more forced than the comparison of drops of blood to drops of rain.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 sidor
...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side, the last drops, ebbing slow From the red...first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it,... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 448 sidor
...Consents to death, but conquers agony, — And his droop'd head sinks, gradually low — And through his side, the last drops, ebbing slow, From the red...first of a thunder-shower ; and now, The arena swims around him — he is gone Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it,... | |
 | 1845 - 916 sidor
...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony. And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops ebbing slow From the red gash,...one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now And now the arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - 1845 - 230 sidor
...manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low, And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceas'd the inhuman shout which... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 sidor
...manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually lowAm! through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red...first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. CXLI. i He... | |
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