 | 1832 - 698 pages
...erratic movements of this brilliant American patriot were regulated by the commands of a quaker. " Well knows the fair and friendly moon, The band that Marion leads ; The glittering of their rifles — The scampering of their steeds." Mr. Hughes does great justice to Genera... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...woodland rings with laugh and shout, As if a hunt were up, And woodland flowers are gathered To crown ithe soldier's cup. With merry songs we mock the wind That in the pine top grieves, And slumber long and sweetly, On beds of oaken -leaves. Well knows the fair and friendly... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 pages
...spoil. The woodland rings with laugh and shout, As if a hunt were up, And woodland flowers are gathered To crown the soldier's cup. With merry songs we mock the wind And slumber long and sweetly, On beds of oaken leaves. 4, Well knows the fair and friendly moon The... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1836 - 288 pages
...spoil. The woodland rings with laugh and shout, As if a hunt were up, And woodland flowers are gathered To crown the soldier's cup. With merry songs we mock...— The glitter of their rifles, The scampering of then- steeds. 'Tis life our fiery barbs to guide Across the moonlight plains ; 'Tis life to feel the... | |
 | 1836 - 268 pages
...spoil. The woodland rings with laugh and shout, As if a hunt were up, And woodland flowers are gathered To crown the soldier's cup. With merry songs we mock...the pine-top grieves, And slumber long and sweetly, Well knows the fair and friendly moon The band that Mariou leads — The glitter of their rifles, The... | |
 | 1838 - 332 pages
...tents on fire They grasp their arms in vain, And they who stand to-face us Are beat to earth again ; i And they who fly in terror, deem A mighty host behind,...glitter of their rifles, The scampering of their steeds. T is life our fiery barbs to guide Across the moonlit plains; Tis life to feel the night- wind That... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - 1840 - 272 pages
..." The woodland rings with laugh and shout, As if a hunt were up, And woodland flowers are gathered To crown the soldier's cup. With merry songs we mock...slumber long and sweetly On beds of oaken leaves." — BRYANT. THERE were preparations for a hunter's carousal in the heart of the forest. The scene of... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Wo to the English soldiery That little dread us near!...Well knows the fair and friendly moon The band that MA BION leads- — The glitter of their rifles, The scampering of their steeds. 'T is life to guide... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 558 pages
...at midnight A strange and sudden fear: When, waking to their tents on fire, They grasp their arras in vain, And they who stand to face us Are beat to...Well knows the fair and friendly moon The band that MAHION leads — The glitter of their rifles, The scampering of their steeds. 'Tis life to guide the... | |
 | 1844 - 328 pages
...flowers are gathered To crown the soldier's cnp. With merry songs we mock the wind, That in the pine top grieves, And slumber long and sweetly On beds of oaken leaves. Well known the fair and friendly moon, The band that Marion leads, The glitter of their rifles, The scampering... | |
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Then sweet the hour that brings release From danger and from toil; We talk the battle over, And share the battle's spoil. The woodland rings with laugh and shout, As if a hunt were up, And woodland flowers are gathered To crown the soldier's cup. With... 
