 The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high, Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny ; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire ; Or Job's...  Poems: Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - Page 15by Robert Burns - 1797Full view - About this book
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny ; Or, how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of heaven's avenging ire ; Or, Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry ; BURNS.... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or Moseg bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny ; Or how the royal Bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire ; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry, Or rapt... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high; Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the Royal Bard did groaning lie, Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry; Or wrapt... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...priest-like father reads the sacred page — How Abrain was the friend of GOD on high ; Or Moses hade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire ; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry ; Or rapt... | |
 | Rev. David Hay - 1854 - 216 pages
...The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high; Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny ; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry ; Or rapt... | |
 | Scottish ballads and songs - 1854 - 606 pages
...The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high; Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or, rapt... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pages
...wage With Anialek's ungracious progeny; Or, how the Royal Bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or, Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry ; Or, rapt Isaiah's wild seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. Xv. Perhaps the Christian... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...priest-like father reads the sacred page, — How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny ; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire , Or Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry ; Or rapt... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 pages
...priest-like father reads the sacred page— [high ; How Abram was the friend of GOD on Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny ; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry ; Or rapt... | |
 | Alexander Blaikie - 1855 - 378 pages
...The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny ; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heav'n's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry ; Or rapt... | |
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