 | Henry Davenport Northrup - 1888 - 790 pages
...The suppliant should be heard — If he indeed a suppliant were Whose glance demanded audience there. Deep stillness fell on all the crowd, From Claudius...his throne Down to the meanest slave that bowed At his imperial throne ; Silent his fellow-captive's grief As fearless spoke the Island Chief: * Think... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 pages
...suppliant should be heard, — If he indeed a suppliant were Whose glance demanded audience there. ist of a large shattered tower, with many vaults,...fragments of other edifices enclosed within an outw his imperial throne ; Silent his fellow-captive's grief As fearless spoke the Island Chief : "Think... | |
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Silent his fellow-captive's grief As fearless spoke the Island Chief : " Think not, thou eagle Lord of Rome, And master of the world, Though victory's banner o'er thy dome In triumph now... 
