"Morion" Quotes from Famous Books
... beguiles.— Yet I hover always nigh, Bid thee think,—and bid thee sigh; Yet I goad thy rankling breast;— Never, never, shalt thou rest. What avails thy bossy shield? What the guard thy gauntlets yield? What the morion on thy brow? Or the hauberk's rings below? If to live in anguish fear, Danger always threatening near: Lift on high thy biting mace, See him glaring in thy face; Turn—yet meet him, madd'ning fly, Curse thy coward soul, and die. Not upon the field of ... — Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 • Edward Ziegler Davis |