 Devouring flames, and murdering steel ! The pious mother, doom'd to death, Forsaken, wanders o'er the heath, The bleak wind whistles round her head, Her helpless orphans cry for bread ; Bereft of shelter, food, and friend, She views the shades of night...  The Scottish Songs - Page 164edited by - 1829 - 370 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Hartley Cromek - Ballads, Scots - 1810 - 260 pages
...victor's soul was not appeas'd : The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames, and murd'ring steel. The pious mother doom'd to death, Forsaken, wanders o'er the heath, The black wind whistles routid her head, Her helpless orphans cry for bread ; Bereft of shelter, food,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1811 - 546 pages
...victor's soul was not appeas'd: The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames, and murd'ring steel! The pious mother, doom'd to death, Forsaken, wanders...the shades of night descend; And, stretch'd beneath th' inclement skiesy \Vceps o'er her tender babes,—and dies. "While the warm blood bedews fay veins.... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...victor's soul was not appeased ; The naked and forlorn must feel Pevouring flames and murdering steel ! The bleak wind whistles round her head ; Her helpless orphans cry for bread: i Bereft of shelter, food, and friend, She views the shades of night descend. And, stretch'd beneath... | |
 | William Nimmo (minister of Bothkennar.) - 1817 - 804 pages
...unanimously acquitted o/ the charge * SMOLLET thus pathetically laments the contemporary horrors. Tlie pious mother doom'd to death, Forsaken wanders o'er...shelter, food, and friend, She views the shades of death descend, And stretched beneath the inclement skies, Weeps on the tender babes and diesSmollet's... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1818 - 724 pages
...feel Devouring flames and murd'ring steel. The pious mother, doom'd to death, Forsaken, wanders on the heath; The bleak wind whistles round her head,...the shades of night descend ; And stretch'd beneath th' inclement skies, Weeps o'er her tender babes, and dies." SMOLLETT. For this, his only victory,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames, and murd'ring steel ! VOL. v. ... - '*-.•'• a The pious mother, doom'd to death, Forsaken wanders...inclement skies,. Weeps o'er her tender babes, and dies. While the warm blood bedews my veins, And unimpair'd remembrance reigns, Resentment of my country's... | |
 | Jacobites - 1821 - 502 pages
...victor's soul was not appeas'd : The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames and murdering steel. The pious mother, doom'd to death, Forsaken, wanders...the shades of night descend, And, stretch'd beneath th' inclement skies, Weeps o'er her tender babes, and dies. Whilst the warm blood bedews my veins,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...victor's soul was not appeas'd : The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames, and murd'ring steel! The pious mother doom'd to death, Forsaken wanders...friend, She views the shades of night descend, And, stretch 'd beneath th' inclement skies, Weeps o'er her tender babes, and dies. While the warm blood... | |
 | James Hogg - Jacobites - 1821 - 516 pages
...victor's soul was not appeas'd ; The naked and forlorn must fcsl Devouring flames and murdering steel. The pious mother, doom'd to death, Forsaken, wanders...o'er the heath ; The bleak wind whistles round her bead, Her helpless orphans cry for bread. Bereft of shelter, food, and friend, She views the shades... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 282 pages
...victor's soul was not appeased ; The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames, and murdering steel ! The pious mother, doom'd to death, Forsaken, wanders...inclement skies, Weeps o'er her tender babes and dies. While the warm blood bedews my veins, And unimpair'd remembrance reigns, Resentment of my country's... | |
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