 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 halaman
...gape; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted ; Five scimitars wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled,...life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack to the heft; Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which ev'n to name wad be unlanfu'. As Tammie glowr'd, amaz'd, and... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - 792 halaman
...; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red rusted ; Five cimiters, wi' murder crusted t A garter, which a babe had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The gray hairs yet stack to the heft ; Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which e'en to name wad be unlawfu".... | |
 | Henrietta Dumont - 1852 - 330 halaman
...Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted ; Five scimiters, wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The gray hairs yet stack to the heft; Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which ev'n to name wad be unlawfu'.... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 halaman
...bairns; A thief, new cuttit frae a rape — Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape ; A garter which a babe had strangled; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life had reft — The grey hairs yet stack. to the heft." This passage forms a splendid specimen of a'most... | |
 | 1853 - 888 halaman
...rapes to me, In Ml my soul to draw ! This terrible verse reminds one of Burns's famous image — " A knife a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The gray Jiairs yet stack to the heft /" The ballad closes by the aged murderer apostrophising his tower... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 halaman
...gape; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red rusted, Five scimitars, wi' murder crusted; A garter, which a babe had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled,...life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack to the heft." This collection has all the effect of a selection. The bodies were not placed there; but following... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 halaman
...Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red rusted , Five scimitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled,...life bereft, The grey hairs yet stack to the heft." This collection has all the effect of a selection. The bodies were not placed there ; but following... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 halaman
...wi' bluid red-rusted, Five scimitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter which a babe had strangled, j , A knife, a father's throat had mangled Whom his ain son o' life bereft, — The gray hairs yet stack to the heft ; Three lawyers' tongues turn'd inside out, Wi' lies seam'd like a... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 halaman
...; Five tomahawks, wi' blnid red-rusted; Five scimitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled, A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The grey hairs yefc stack to the heft : Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which ev'n to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 halaman
...Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted ; Five scimitars, wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o' life bereft, The gray hairs yet stack to the heft : l Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which ev'n to name wad be unlawfu'.... | |
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Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted ; Five scimitars wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o... 
