In crowded mansions pass the infernal night, Some for a bed their tatter'd vestments join, And some on chests, and some on floors recline ; Shut from the blessings of the evening air, Pensive we lay with mingled corpses there, Meagre and wan, and scorch'd... History of the City of New York - Stran 537avtor: Mary Louise Booth - 1867 - 892 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| Mary Louise Booth - 1859 - 868 strani
...their tattered vestments join, And some on chests, and some on floors recline ; Shut from the hlessings of the evening air, Pensive we lay with mingled corpses there ; Meagre and wan, and scorch'd with heat helow, We look'd like ghosts, ere death had made us so. How could we else, where heat and hunger join'd,... | |
| Philip Morin Freneau - 1861 - 394 strani
...here, denied all light, In crowded mansions pass the infernal night, Some for a bed their tatter'd vestments join, And some on chests, and some on floors...Meagre and wan, and scorch'd with heat, below, We loom'd like ghosts, ere death had made us so — How could we else, where heat and hunger join'd Thus... | |
| Mary Stanislas Austin - 1901 - 326 strani
...here, denied all light, In crowded mansions pass the infernal night, Some for a bed their tatter'd vestments join, And some on chests, and some on floors...us so — How could we else, where heat and hunger joined, Thus to debase the body and the mind, — No waters laded from the bubbling spring To these... | |
| Albert Ulmann - 1901 - 336 strani
...: " ' Here doom'd to starve, like famished dogs we tore The scant allowance that our tyrants bore. Three hundred wretches here deny'd all light, In crowded...evening air, Pensive we lay with mingled corpses there; Meager and wan, and scorch'd with heat below, We looked like ghosts ere death had made us so.' " Every... | |
| Philip Morin Freneau - 1902 - 428 strani
...night, Some for a bed their tatter'd vestments join, And some on chests, and some on floors recline;1 Shut from the blessings of the evening air, Pensive...there, Meagre and wan, and scorch'd with heat below, We loom'd like ghosts, ere death had made us so— How could we else, where heat and hunger join'd Thus... | |
| Philip Morin Freneau - 1902 - 436 strani
...night, Some for a bed their tatter'd vestments join, And some on chests, and some on floors recline ; l Shut from the blessings of the evening air, Pensive...there, Meagre and wan, and scorch'd with heat below, We loom'd like ghosts, ere death had made us so — How could we else, where heat and hunger join'd Thus... | |
| Francis Bazley Lee - 1902 - 550 strani
...evening shackle, and the noonday threat ! from which, driven to the hold, crowded like sheep in a pen, Shut from the blessings of the evening air, Pensive we lay with mangled corpses there ; Meagre and wan and scorched with heat below, We loomed like ghosts ere death... | |
| 1906 - 282 strani
...repose, so great our throng; Four hundred wretches here, denied all light, In crowded mansions pass the infernal night, Some for a bed their tattered vestments...lay with mingled corpses there, Meagre and wan, and scorched with heat, below, We looked like ghosts, ere death had made us so — How could we else, where... | |
| Danske Dandridge - 1911 - 762 strani
...quarters pass the infernal night. Some for a bed their tattered vestments join, And some on chest, and some on floors recline; Shut from the blessings...lay with mingled corpses there: Meagre and wan, and scorched with heat below, We looked like ghosts ere death had made us so: How could we else, where... | |
| Carl Holliday - 1912 - 328 strani
...captain's cane, The soldier's musket, and the steward's debt, The evening shackle, and the noon-day threat! Shut from the blessings of the evening air, Pensive we lay with mangled corpses there ; Meagre and wan and scorched with heat, below, We loomed like ghosts, ere death... | |
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