 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 descend, And, stretch'd beneath the' inclement...  History of Stirlingshire. Corrected and brought down to the present time by ... - Page 564by William Nimmo (minister of Bothkennar.) - 1817Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1791 - 546 pages
...victor's soul was not appeas'd: The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames, and murd'ring steel I The bleak wind whistles round her head, Her helpless orphans cry for bread ; Bereft ot shelter, food, and friend, She views the shades of night descend ; And, stretch'd beneath th' unclement... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 472 pages
...soul was not appeased : The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames, and murdering steel ! The pious mother, doom'd to death, Forsaken wanders o'er...shelter, food, and friend, She views the shades of night descend; And stretch'd beneath the inclement skies, Weeps o'er her tender babes, and dies. While... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...victor':, 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 o'er...shelter, food, and friend, She views the shades of night descend, And stretch'd beneath the inclement skies, Weeps o'er her tender babes and dies. While... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...miisl feel •. Dooming flames and inurd'ring steel ! The picms mother doom'd to death, Forsilu-n, s shall drink him till thcv burst. Old Cotta sham'd...coolness with his grot? His court with nettles, moat night descend $ And, slretch'd beneath th' inclement skies, Weeps o'er her tender babes, and dies.... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...soul was not appeas'd; The naked and forlorn must feel f* Devouring flames, and murdering steel !: ' The bleak wind whistles round her head, Her helpless...shelter, food, and friend, She views the shades of night descend, And stretch'd beneath th' inclement skies, Weeps o'er her tender babes and dies. While... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...soul was not appeas'd: The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames, and murdering steel: VI. The pious mother, doom'd to death, forsaken wanders o'er...shelter, food, and friend, She views the shades of night descend, And stretch'd beneath th' inclement skies, Weeps o'er her tender babes and dies. VII.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 pages
...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...shelter, food, and friend, She views the shades of night descend, And, streteh'd beneath th' inclement skies, Weeps o'er her tender babes and dies. SSi... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 pages
...The naked and forlorn must feel Devouring flames, and murdering steel ! * The pious mother, doomed to death, Forsaken, wanders o'er the heath ; The bleak...shelter, food, and friend, She views the shades of night descend ; And stretched beneath the inclement skies, Weeps o'er her tender babes, and dies. While... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 682 pages
...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...helpless orphans cry for bread; Bereft of shelter, fuod, and friend, She views the shades of night descend, And, stretch'd beneath th' inclement skies,... | |
 | Robert Hartley Cromek - 1810 - 260 pages
...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...shelter, food, and friend, She views the shades of night descend ; And, stretch'd beneath th' inclement skies, Weeps o'er her tender babes, and dies.... | |
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