 ... heart-aching sight Of the mother, and looked all pitiful grave, as repenting a wrong. And there as the motherly arms stretched out with the thanksgiving prayer — And there as the mother crept up with a fearful swift pace, Till her finger nigh felt...  Library of Southern Literature: Biography - Page 3058edited by - 1909Full view - About this book
 | Sidney Lanier, William Hayes Ward - 1884 - 314 pages
...fearful swift pace, Till her finger nigh felt of the bairnie's face — In a flash fierce Hamish turned round and lifted the child in the air, And sprang...And gazed hungrily o'er, and the blood from his back dripdripped in the brine, And a sea-hawk flung down a skeleton fish as he flew, And the mother stared... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 700 pages
...fearful swift pace, Till her finger nigh felt of the bairnie's face — In a flash fierce Hamish turned round and lifted the child in the air, And sprang...the wind-rush; and pallid Maclean, Age-feeble with auger and impotent pain, 150 1 1861-88] 151 And gazed hungrily o'er, and the blood from his back drip-dripped... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 472 pages
...fearful swift pace, Till her finger nigh felt of the bairnie's face — In a flash fierce Hamish turned round and lifted the child in the air, And sprang...and impotent pain, Crawled up on the crag, and lay fiat, and locked hold of dead roots of a tree — And gazed hungrily o'er, and the blood from his back... | |
 | Arthur Beaman Simonds - American poetry - 1894 - 344 pages
...felt of the bairnie's face— In a flash fierce Hamish turned round and lifted the child in the air, Shrill screeching, " Revenge ! " in the wind-rush...And gazed hungrily o'er, and the blood from his back drip—dripped in the brine, And a sea-hawk flung down a skeleton fish as he flew, And the mother stared... | |
 | English poetry - 1896 - 532 pages
...fearful swift pace, Till her finger nigh felt of the bairnie's face — In a flash fierce Hamish turned round and lifted the child in the air, And sprang...And gazed hungrily o'er, and the blood from his back dripdripped in the brine, And a sea-hawk flung down a skeleton fish as he flew, And the mother stared... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1899 - 168 pages
...fearful swift pace, Till her finger nigh felt of the bairnie's face — In a flash fierce Hamish turned round and lifted the child in the air, And sprang...lay flat, and locked hold of dead roots of a tree — 101 And gazed hungrily o'er, and the blood from his back drip-dripped in the brine, And a sea-hawk... | |
 | James Augustin Brown Scherer - Grail - 1905 - 222 pages
...fearful swift pace, Till her finger nigh felt of the bairnie's face — In a flash, fierce Hamish turned round and lifted the child in the air, And sprang...And gazed hungrily o'er and the blood from his back drip-dripped in the brine, And a sea-hawk flung down a skeleton fish as he flew, And the mother stared... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - American literature - 1905 - 738 pages
...fearful swift pace, Till her finger nigh felt of the bairnie's face — In a flash fierce Hamish turned round and lifted the child in the air, And sprang...flat, and locked hold of dead roots of a tree, And a sea-hawk flung down a skeleton fish as he flew, And the mother stared white on the waste of blue,... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - American literature - 1905 - 740 pages
...fearful swif fr pace, Till her finger nigh felt of the bairnie's face — In a flash fierce Hamish turned round and lifted the child in the air, And sprang...anger and impotent pain, Crawled up on the crag, and iky flat, and locked hold of dead roots of a tree, And a sea-hawk flung down a skeleton fish as he... | |
 | CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE, PH. D. - 1905 - 778 pages
...fearful swift pace, Till her finger nigh felt of the bairnie's face — In a flash fierce Hamish turned round and lifted the child in the air, And sprang...horrible height in the sea, Shrill screeching, ' Revenge 1 ' in the wind-rush; and pallid Maclean, Age-feeble with anger and impotent pain, Crawled np on the... | |
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