| English poetry - 1869 - 328 páginas
...wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The border Slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven, and all its saints ! I swear,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1869 - 244 páginas
...flew The Bo7ii ie K ^gbt, while fiercer grew r o xxvii " A Home ! " " A Gordon ! " was the cry ; 15 Loud were the clanging blows; Advanced, — forced...the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, 20 It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : — " By heaven, and all its saints,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 páginas
...grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Lond were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back,...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blpunt the view conld bear : — ' By Heaven, and all its saints,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1870 - 340 páginas
...amid the tumult high England saw Marmion's pennon fly. The b5rder slogan rent the sky : " A Home ! a Gordon ! " was the cry ; Loud were the clanging...— forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sank and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It... | |
| 1871 - 908 páginas
...the vave. True to this image, he thus paints the rage of battle around Lord Marmion's standard : — Advanced — forced back — now low, now high, The...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes. Then, consistently with this image, at the close of the battle the retreat of Surrey's troops from... | |
| Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 páginas
...battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky. A Home ! a Gordon I was the cry ; Loud were the changing blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. 9. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven and all its saints II... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 248 páginas
...Border slogan rent the sky — 38 A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry. Loud were the clanging blows : 530 Advanced, forced back — now low, now high, The pennon...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By heaven, and all its saints, I swear,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1871 - 346 páginas
...amid the tumult high England saw Marmion's pennon fly. The border slogan rent the sky : " A Home ! a Gordon ! " was the cry ; Loud were the clanging...— forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sank and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 páginas
...wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! man possessed — five hundred pounds a year. Blush, grandeur, blush ; proud courts, withdraw your »igt». The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds,... | |
| 1871 - 910 páginas
...the wave. True to this image, he thus paints the rage of battle around Lord Marmion's standard : — Advanced — forced back — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the barfs mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver'd 'mid the foes. Then, consistently... | |
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