 | Arthur Mee - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 656 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream. And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome. As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed...burst the curb and bounded, Rejoicing to be free, And whirling down, in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier. Rushed headlong to the sea. Alone... | |
 | American poetry - 1920 - 202 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome. As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. -X- * * * Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind, — Thrice thirty thousand foes before,... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Anthologies - 1922 - 518 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed...burst the curb, and bounded, Rejoicing to be free, And whirling down, in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier, Rushed headlong to the sea. Alone... | |
 | Henry Copp Edgar - English language - 1922 - 472 pages
...destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. 6. And like a horse unbroken, When first he feels the...furious river struggled hard And tossed his tawny mane. 7. Stay and read this rude inscription, Read this song of Hiawatha. 8. I hold it true whate'er befall,... | |
 | Calvin Noyes Kendall - 1922 - 380 pages
...the stream; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret tops Was splashed the yellow foam. And like a horse unbroken,...burst the curb, and bounded, Rejoicing to be free; And whirling down in fierce career, Battlement, and plank, and pier, Alone stood brave Horatius; But... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream ; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed...unbroken, When first he feels the rein, The furious river straggled hard, And tossed his tawny mane, And burst the curb, and bounded, Rejoicing to be free ;... | |
 | Edwin Markham - American poetry - 1927 - 402 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed...feels the rein, The furious river struggled hard. 1741 And tossed his tawny mane, And burst the curb, and bounded, Rejoicing to be free, And whirling... | |
 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream: And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. LVI And, like a horse unbroken When first he feels the rein, The furious river struggled hard, And... | |
 | Melvin Everett Haggerty - American literature - 1927 - 586 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. 28 And, like a horse unbroken When first he feels the rein, The furious river struggled hard, And tossed... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Rome - 1928 - 204 pages
...dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream : And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. LVI And, like a horse unbroken When first he feels the rein, The furious river struggled hard, And... | |
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But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened beam, And like a dam the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream ; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam. 
