They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air: Oh! The castles and abbeys of England - Pàgina 66per William Beattie - 1844 - 10 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 pàgines
...at weapon-point they close. They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's . . . Ix>ng looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the... | |
| Harold Edgeworth Butler - 1903 - 248 pàgines
...weapon-point they close,— They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, O life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long... | |
| Sir Walter Scott, edited by J. Logie Robertson, M.A. - 1904 - 986 pàgines
...weapon-point they close. They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-s\va3% and with lance's thnist ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air; О life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long... | |
| 1904 - 562 pàgines
...weapon-point they close. — They close in clouds of smoke and dust. With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous...birth. As if men fought upon the earth And fiends in upIx-r air: O, life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, At length the freshening... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 942 pàgines
...in clouds of smoke and dust. With sword-sway and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there. Qf n'd grinning to his men, Who ran, some five or six. and beat His liends in upper air : Oh ! life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 548 pàgines
...weapon-point they close ; They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ; O, life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.... | |
| 1905 - 584 pàgines
...weapon-point they close. — They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long look'd the anxious squires ; their... | |
| William Stebbing - 1907 - 428 pàgines
...a neighbouring hill-top: They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust: And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ; O life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. At... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 992 pàgines
...weapon-point they close. They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's ; O life and death were in the shout. Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long... | |
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