With all her mourning doves about her head, Sat rocking on an ancient road of Hell, Withered and eyeless, chanting to the moon Snatches of song they sang to her of old Upon the lighted roofs of Nineveh. And then her voice rang out with rattling laugh:... The Man with the Hoe: And Other Poems - Pagina 15de Edwin Markham - 1899 - 134 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1897 - 878 pagini
...roofs of Nineveh. And then her voice rang out with rattling laugh : " The bugles they are crying back again — Bugles that broke the nights of Babylon,...Nineveh. Stand back ye trembling messengers of ill, I rush out with my hair unbound to quell IiiMirgent cities. Let the iron tread Of armies shake the... | |
| 1897 - 992 pagini
...then her voice rang out with rattling laugh : '• The bugles they are crying back again — liugles that broke the nights of Babylon, And then went crying...Nineveh. Stand back ye trembling messengers of ill, I rush out with my hair unbound to quell Insurgent cities. Let the iron tread Of armies shake the earth.... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 966 pagini
...roofs of Nineveh, And then her voice rang out with rattling laugh: " The bugles ! they are crying back D Q 6 Kr"V MҼݯO= L F. Assyria goes by upon the wiud ! " And so she babbles by the ancient road, While cities turned to dust... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 968 pagini
...roofs of Nineveh. And then her voice rang out with rattling laugh: "Tho bugles I they are crying hack again — Bugles that broke the nights of Babylon,...trembling messengers of ill ! Women, let go my hair: I nin the Queen, A whirlwind and a blaze of swords to quell Insurgent cities. Lei the iron tread Of armies... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 954 pagini
...roofs of Nineveh. And then her voice rang out with rattling laugh: " The bugles ! they are crying back again — Bugles that broke the nights of Babylon, And then went crying on through Nineveh. A whirlwind and a blaze of swords te quell Insurgent cities. Let the iron tread Of armies shake the... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1901 - 964 pagini
...roofs of Nineveh. And then her voice rang out with rattling laugh: " The bugles ! they are crying back larence A whirlwind and a blaze of swords to quell Insurgent cities. Let the iron tread Of armies shake the... | |
| David George Downey - 1906 - 230 pagini
...roofs of Nineveh. And then her voice rang out with rattling laugh: "The bugles! they are crying back again — Bugles that broke the nights of Babylon,...tread Of armies shake the earth. Look, lofty towers: Assyria goes by upon the wind!" And so she babbles by the ancient road, While cities turned to dust... | |
| Hudson Maxim - 1910 - 460 pagini
...roofs of Nineveh. And then her voice rang out with rattling laugh: 'The bugles! they are crying back again — Bugles that broke the nights of Babylon,...tread Of armies shake the earth. Look, lofty towers: Assyria goes by upon the wind!' And so she babbles by the ancient road, While cities turned to dust... | |
| Jessie Belle Rittenhouse - 1915 - 348 pagini
...roofs of Nineveh. And then her voice rang out with rattling laugh: "The bugles! they are crying back again — Bugles that broke the nights of Babylon,...tread Of armies shake the earth. Look, lofty towers: Assyria goes by upon the wind!" And so she babbles by the ancient road, While cities turned to dust... | |
| Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 pagini
...roofs of Nineveh. And then her voice rang out with rattling laugh: "The bugles! they are crying back again — Bugles that broke the nights of Babylon,...tread Of armies shake the earth. Look, lofty towers: Assyria goes by upon the wind!" And so she babbles by the ancient road, While cities turned to dust... | |
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