 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 36by Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt - 1895 - 335 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, 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... | |
 | Songs, English - 1847 - 906 pages
...; The foeman trembles in his camp, When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round...; We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of ready grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Woe to the heedless soldiery Who little... | |
 | 1847 - 876 pages
...99.) CHAPTER VIL Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our ten! Uie cypress tree; We know the fores! round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vinee, Its Blades of reedy grass, Its s-ife iin 1 silent islands Within the dark morass. Son^ of Marion's... | |
 | American poetry - 1848 - 276 pages
...green wood, Our tent the cypress tree; We know the forest round us, We know its walls of thorny vinea. 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 - 1850 - 264 pages
...told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1851 - 380 pages
...trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1852 - 388 pages
...trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...bold ; The British soldier trembles When Million's name is told. Our 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, IU safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Wo to the English soldiery That little dread us... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 pages
...told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1855 - 310 pages
...told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, 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... | |
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