IN PIEMONT. AVENGE, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold! Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not ! in thy hook record their groans Who... The Household Book of Poetry - Page 685edited by - 1859 - 798 pagesFull view - About this book
| English literature - 1844 - 622 pages
...Almighty, on behalf of the Vaudois :— * Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold :—• Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, "\Vlicu all our i'athers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget not.' ART. II.—A Memoir of the Life... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 628 pages
...contemporary themes, since the breath ceased that uttered that tremendous imprecation‘Avenge, oh Lord! thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold !‘—. we say loftier than almost any, for we cannot forget Mr Southey's ‘Ode, written during the... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...On the late massacre in PIEMONT. AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipt stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...XIII. On the late massacre in PIEMONT. AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughter^ saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipt stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 564 pages
...PIEMONT. Avencf., О Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains co'd; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipt stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in... | |
| Jane West - 1814 - 376 pages
...Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold ; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worship'd stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans. MILTON r j~ r HE Countess... | |
| John Milton - 1815 - 236 pages
...AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtcr'd saints, whose bone? Lie scatter 1 d on the Alpine mountains cold ; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their g-roans Who were thy sheep, and... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worship'd stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in... | |
| Charles Edward Dodd - 1821 - 626 pages
...servant of the Court. LETTER XL Avenge, oh Lord! thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones— Forget not—in thy book record their groans.— MILTON'S Sonnet on... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1822 - 564 pages
...Forget not! In thy book record their groans " Avenge, O Lord! thy slaughtered saints, whose bonais Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them...kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worship! stocks and stones, Who were thy sheep, and in Iheir ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese,... | |
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