"Guerdonless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... own life's blood Retreating, cast the cumbrous load away: They, when brown foemen lopped the bridges down, Who tipped thonged chests into the stream below And over wealth that might have ransomed kings Passed on to safety;—cheated, guerdonless — Found (through their fingers the bright booty slipped) A city naked, of that golden dream Shorn in one moment like a ...
— Poems • Alan Seeger |
