 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pàgines
...plumed crests of chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave; But naught distinct they see ; Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook,...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Amid the scene of tumult, high They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly : And stainless Tunstall's banner... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pàgines
...plumed crests of chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave; But nought distinct they see: Wide raged the battle on the plain; Spears shook,...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Amid the scene of tumult, high They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly: And stainless Tunstall's banner... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1853 - 368 pàgines
...ridge, and moved down under cover of the smoke to meet the assailants. The conflict opened with double success — Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears...disorderly. In the centre, fortune smiled upon the gallant king ; but on the left, the Highlanders were dispersed by Stanley's cavalry ; and, attacked in flank... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1854 - 460 pàgines
...Volumed, and fast, and rolling far, The cloud enveloped Scotland's war, As down the hill they broke. Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook,...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Yet still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell.... | |
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 pàgines
...nought distinct they see. Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and falchions flash'd amain, Fell England's arrow-flight like rain : Crests...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Amid the scenes of tumult, high, They saw Lord Marmion's falchion fly ; And stainless Tunstall's banner... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 452 pàgines
...the storm the white sea-mew ; Then marked they, dashing broad and far The broken billows of the war. Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook,...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Amidst the scene of tumult, high, They saw Lard Marmion's falcon Jly, And stainless Tunxtairs banner... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 450 pàgines
...the storm the white sea-mew ; Then marked they, dashing broad and far The broken billows of the war. Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook,...Crests rose, and stooped, and rose again, Wild and discMerly. Amidst the scene of lu-pult, high, They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly, And stainless TunstalTs... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 364 pàgines
...plumed crests of chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave ; But nought distinct they see : Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook,...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Amid the scene of tumult, high They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly : And stainless Tunstall's banner... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pàgines
...plumed crests of chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave; But nought distinct they see: Wide raged the battle on the plain; Spears shook,...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. But as they left the darkening heath, More desperate grew the strife of death. The English shafts in... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pàgines
...plumed crests of chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave ; But nought distinct they see : Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook,...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Amid the scene of tumult, high They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly : And stainless Tunstall's banner... | |
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Above the brightening cloud appears; And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then marked they, dashing broad and far, The broken billows of the war, And plumed crests of chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave;... 
