| Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1894 - 554 pages
...of her sin and the destruction she has wrought, and sternly : " The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws, The...hosts Of heathen swarming o'er the Northern Sea." But it also tells her that he loves her still, that he will urge her crimes no more, that he forgives... | |
| Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1894 - 536 pages
...of her sin and the destruction she has wrought, and sternly : " The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws, The...hosts Of heathen swarming o'er the Northern Sea." But it also tells her that he loves her still, that he will urge her crimes no more, that he forgives... | |
| Kenyon West - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 614 pages
...dead before thy shame? Well is it that no child is born of thee. The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws, The...Godless hosts Of heathen swarming o'er the Northern Sea ; Whom I, while yet Sir Lancelot, my right arm, The mightiest of my knights, abode with me, Have everywhere... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1895 - 112 pages
...before thy shame? 420 Well is it that no child is born of thee. The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws, The...Godless hosts Of heathen swarming o'er the Northern Sea; Whom I, while yet Sir Lancelot, my right arm, The mightiest of my knights, abode with me, Have everywhere... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1895 - 112 pages
...before thy shame ? 420 Well is it that no child is born of thee. The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws, The...Godless hosts Of heathen swarming o'er the Northern Sea ; Whom I, while yet Sir Lancelot, my right arm, The mightiest of my knights, abode with me, Have everywhere... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1895 - 422 pages
...Well is it that no child is bor n of thee. The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red rain, and the breaking up of laws, The craft of kindred...Godless hosts Of heathen swarming o'er the Northern Sea; Whom I, while yet Sir Lancelot, my right arm The mightiest of my knights, abode with me, Have everywhere... | |
| Kenyon West - Poets laureate - 1895 - 588 pages
...thee. The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws. The crnft of kindred and the Godless hosts Of heathen swarming o'er the Northern Sea ; Whom I, while yet Sir Lancelot, my right arm, The mightiest of my knights, abode with me, Have everywhere... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1896 - 122 pages
...before thy shame ? 420 Well is it that no child is born of thee. The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws, The...godless hosts Of heathen swarming o'er the Northern Sea; 425 Whom I, while yet Sir Lancelot, my right arm, The mightiest of my knights, abode with me, Have... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 630 pages
...child is born of thee. The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking-up of laws, The craft of kindred, and the Godless hosts Of heathen swarming o'er the Northern Sea; Whom I, while yet Sir Lancelot, my right arm, The mightiest of my knights, abode with me, Have everywhere... | |
| Sydney C. Grier - Great Britain - 1896 - 508 pages
...It doesn't require much foresight to prophesy that the results of this night's work will be ' Sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws, The craft of kindred and the ruthless hosts Of Scythia swarming o'er the Euxine sea." But you really must excuse me," he broke off... | |
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