 | 1902 - 642 pages
...finest poems of this kind — Sir Francis Doyle's ' Private of the Buffs,' with its noble moral : ' Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those...heart of her sons. So let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who died as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great.' The desperate... | |
 | 1861 - 788 pages
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, those...her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring— A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. HORSE-BKEAKING... | |
 | Sir Francis Hastings Doyle - 1866 - 392 pages
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, those...her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring— A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. LADY AGNES. This... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...not shrink, With knee to man unbent, 30 Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, those...all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep, untamed, 35 The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who... | |
 | 1870 - 464 pages
...not shrink, With knee to man unbent, 30 Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, those...all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep, untamed, 35 The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. SIR FRANCIS... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1871 - 394 pages
...dreadful brink To his red grave he went. Vnin, mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain, those all shattering guns, Unless proud England keep, untamed, The strong...heart of her sons. So let his name through Europe ring A man of mean estât?, Who died as firm as Spnrta's King, Because his soul was great. • Lord Elgin... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 pages
...whine and kneel ; With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those...all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep, untamed, A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king The strong heart of her sons. So, let his... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1872 - 396 pages
...— POPE. "WHERE SOIL is MEN GROW, WHETHER TO WEEDS OR FLOWERS." — KEATS. APOLLO AND MARSYAS. . 329 Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those...all-shattering guns ; • Unless proud England keep, untamed, W < Ed M The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873 - 518 pages
...not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave be went. ' Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, those...all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep, untamed, i The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring— A man of mean estate, Who died,... | |
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Yes, honour calls! — with strength like steel He put the vision by. Let dusky Indians whine and kneel; An English lad must die. And thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he... 
