 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamouring, " If we pay, we starve ;" She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode...replying, half-amazed, " You would not let your little ringer ache For such as these?"—"But I would die," said she. He laugh'd, and swore by Peter and by... | |
 | 1846 - 730 pages
...tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children clamoring, " If we pay, we starve ;" She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode...hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And prayed him, " If they pay this tax, they starve." Whereat he stared, replying, half-amazed, " You would... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamouring, " If we pay, we starve! '' She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode About the hall, among his dogs, alone, His heard a foot before him, and his hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And pray'd him, "... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 pages
...tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamoring, " If we pay, we starve ! " She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode...hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And prayed him, " If they pay this tax, they starve." Whereat he stared, replying half-amazed, " You would... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 300 pages
...tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamoring, " If we pay, we starve ! " She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode...hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And prayed him, "If they pay this tax, they starve. Whereat he stared, replying half-amazed, " You would... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 pages
...tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamoring, " If we pay, we starve ! " She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode...hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And prayed him, " If they pay this tax, they starve." Whereat he stared, replying half-amazed, " You would... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamouring — " If we pay, we starve," She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode...hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And prayed him, " If they pay this tax, they starve." Whereat ho stared, replying, half-amazed, " You would... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 404 pages
...TJpou his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamouring, " If we pay, we starve ! " She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode About the haU, among his dogs, alone, His beard a foot before him, and his hair A yard behind. She told him of... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1856 - 552 pages
...the gentle woman appealing to her grim lord, Leofric, to remit a tax upon the people of Coventry : " She told him of their tears, And pray'd him, ' If they pay this tax, they starve.' " And so, to procure the remission of the tax, she did her lord's imperious bidding; and " Then she... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1857 - 210 pages
...immortal verse." A few of Mr. Tennyson's beautiful lines cannot fail to be acceptable here : — " She sought her lord, and found him where he strode...before him, and his hair A yard behind. She told him of then* tears, And pray'd him, ' If they pay this tax, they starve.* Whereat he stared, replying, half... | |
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Godiva, wife to that grim Earl, who ruled In Coventry; for when he laid a tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamoring, "If we pay, we starve! 
