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" Bellowing victory, bellowing doom. When he with those deep voices wrought, Guarding realms and kings from shame, With those deep voices our dead captain taught The tyrant, and asserts his claim... "
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington - Page 8
by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1852 - 16 pages
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A Second Book of English Poetry

196 pages
...toll'd : A deeper knell in the heart be knoll'd; And the sound of the sorrowing anthem roll'd Through the dome of the golden cross ; And the volleying cannon...voices of old. For many a time in many a clime His captain's ear has heard them boom Bellowing victory, bellowing doom ; When he with those deep voices...
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Principles and Method in the Study of English Literature

William Macpherson (Author of "Principles and Method in the Study of English Literature".) - 1908 - 206 pages
...two threads that run through the poem are seen to be connected with one another, as to the lines — And the volleying cannon thunder his loss. He knew their voices of old, where, by a natural transition, the poet passes from the present place and time to the celebration...
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a handbook of modern english metre

188 pages
...deep|er knell | in the heart | be knolled, And the sound | of the sorrowing an|them rolled Through the dome | of the gol|den cross, And the voll|eying can|non thun|der his loss. Iambic rhythm is found in the 3rd and other sections, varying from two feet to five feet, Lead out...
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