 Woe to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and sudden fear : When, waking to their tents on fire, They grasp their arms in vain, And they who stand to face us Are beat to earth again...  Hero Tales from American History - Page 62by Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt - 1895 - 335 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...bold ; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round...Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Wo to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light, at midnight, A strange... | |
 | American literature - 1834 - 324 pages
...true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green-wood, Our tent the...Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Wo to the English soldiery, That little dread us near ! On them shall light, at midnight, A strange... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...bold ; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round...As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vinea) Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. 3. Wo to the... | |
 | John Pendleton Kennedy - Albemarle County (Va.) - 1835
...race, — the most uncaring and happiest of mortals. CHAPTER XVI. Oar fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree, -We know the forest round...walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its sale and silent islands Withjn the dark morass. — Bryant. THE faithful Horse Shoe being thus left... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1836 - 288 pages
...trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea....Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Wo to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and... | |
 | American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, We know its walls of thorny vine*, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Wo to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight, A strange and... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told . Our fortress is the good green-wood. Our tent the...walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its sale and silent islands Within the dark morass. Woe to the English soldiery, That little dread us near... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 292 pages
...trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea....Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Wo to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - American fiction - 1840 - 252 pages
...VIS1TERS. " Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree, We know the forest round ui As seamen know the sea ; We know its walls of thorny...reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the deep morass." — BRYANT. " I RAYTHER guess," quoth Balt, when the party had all, by different routes,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - American fiction - 1840 - 248 pages
...scene. CHAPTER V. EVENING VISITERS. " Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress-tree, We know the forest round us As seamen know the sea...walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, _ Its safe and silent islands Within the deep morass." — BBTANT. " I RAYTHER guess," quoth Balt,... | |
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