 And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him, — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard...  New National First[ -fifth] Reader - Page 380by Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, hut he heeded not ; his eyes Were with his heart, and that ivas ; T/ttve were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butchered... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...arena swims around him — he is gone, Kre ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with...lay — There were his young barbarians all at play, 1 These beautiful lines have often been quoted as an instance of the superior range of poetry, compared... | |
 | Joel Tyler Headley - 1845 - 240 pages
...expression of the figure, and when the " inhuman shout" rung over the arena to his victor, you know " He heard it but he heeded not — his eyes Were with...recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rud« hut by the Daunbe lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1973 - 508 pages
...'Will no one tell me what she sings?' 5 so from Byron, too, at his best, there will come such verse as 'He heard it, but he heeded not; his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away.' Of verse of this high quality, Byron has much; of verse of a quality lower than this, of a quality... | |
 | Vincent Newey, Ann Thompson - 1991 - 316 pages
...unexpected) we are taken from the eye-spectacle of public death to the interior vision of a heart: He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away; He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay There were his young... | |
 | Willa Cather - 2003 - 412 pages
...The lines read ". . . he is gone, / Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. / He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes / Were with his heart, and that was far away; . . . where his rude hut by the Danube lay" (IV, stanzas 140-41). 75.2 1 the "Jewel" song: From Charles... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shoot which hail' Л the wretch who won. CXLI. He heard it, bat d those who fought for conquest reok'd not of the life he lost nor prize, Bat where his rode hat by the Danube lay, There were his... | |
 | Andrew Rutherford - 1995 - 536 pages
...Will no one tell me what she sings? so from Byron, too, at his best, there will come such verse as He heard it, but he heeded not; his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away. Of verse of this high quality, Byron has much ; of verse of a quality lower than this, of a quality... | |
 | Michael Grant - 1995 - 136 pages
...The arena swims around him -he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not - his eyes Were with...his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother - he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday. While African boys raked over the... | |
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