 | George Eyre-Todd - 1895 - 318 pages
...again. But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes, I'll sing thine obsequies with trumpet sounds And write thine epitaph in blood and wounds. ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES I. BURST out my soul in main of tears, And thou, my heart, sigh's tempest move,... | |
 | Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - 1897 - 396 pages
...again : Rut since thy lond-tongued blood demands supplies More from Briarens' hands than Argus' eyes, I'll sing thine obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thine epitaph in blood and wounds. " 3. Figs. 1 and 2. Back and front view of hand and forearm. Fig. 3. Sword showing shield with arms... | |
 | Marjory G. J. Kinloch - 1898 - 384 pages
...grief with thy too rigid fate, I'd weep the world in such a strain, As it would deluge once again ; 1 I'll sing thine obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thine epitaph in blood and wounds." Queen Henrietta Maria was at the Louvre, and, dazed with grief, disappeared immediately for a time... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann - 1899 - 648 pages
...thoroughly despised could be to the Covenant. His call to arms on the death of Charles I.— " I'll sin g thine obsequies with trumpet sounds. And write thine epitaph in blood and wounds."— is worthy of the brutal frankness of Marat. The fine qualities of his nature, the fascinating charm... | |
 | Frederick Bridge - 1903 - 156 pages
...again. " But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies, More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes, I'll sing thine obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thine epitaph in blood and wounds." Even at this early stage Pepys was, as ever, critical. " Here Swan," he says, " showed us a ballad... | |
 | john buchan - 1913 - 504 pages
...again. But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies More from Briareus" hands than Argus' eyes, I'll sing thine obsequies with trumpet sounds And write thine epitaph in blood and wounds." Henceforth there is an uncanniness about him, as of one who lived half his time in another world. He... | |
 | John Buchan - 1928 - 444 pages
...again. But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies More from Briareus" hands than Argus' eyes, I'll sing thine obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thine epitaph in blood and wounds. From this moment there is an uncanniness about him, as of one who lives half his time in another world.... | |
 | Antonia Fraser - 2001 - 796 pages
...father's death, and the gallant Montrose had vowed in a passionate poem to sing his royal master's obsequies "with trumpet sounds, And write thine epitaph in blood and wounds". But it was in fact from Ireland that menace to the new State seemed to loom most immediately. There... | |
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I'll sing thine obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thine epitaph in blood and wounds. 
