 | New reader - 1879 - 392 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,...falchions flashed amain ; Fell England's arrow-flight like ram ; Crests rose, and stooped, and rose again, * * * # * Tho war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pàgines
...wave; But noueht distinct they see: Wide raged the battle on the plain: Spears shook, and falchions amain ; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain ; Crests...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Evening fell on the deadly struggle, and the spectators were forced from the agitating scene. Led back... | |
 | Thomas Nelson (and sons, ltd.) - 1879 - 200 pàgines
...plumed crests of chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave ; 90 But nought distinct they see. Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and 'falchions flashed 'amain; Fell England's arrow-flights like rain ; Crests rose, and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Amid the scene... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pàgines
...plumed crests of cheftains 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 Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pàgines
...plumed crests of chieftains brave Floating like foam upon the wave ; But naught distinct they see : n Amid the scene of tumult, high They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly : And stainless Tunstall's banner... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 pàgines
...is just when twilight falls upon the scene of conflict : — \ But naught distinct they see : While raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 326 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 falchions flashed amain J Fell England's arrow-flight like rain ; Crests rose, and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 pàgines
...foam upon the wave; lint nought distinct they see: WlderagecT the battle on the plain ; Spears sliook, and falchions flashed amain; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain ; Crests rose, and el coped, and rose a siin, Wild •••in! disorderly. Evening fell on the deadly struggle, and the... | |
 | Thomas J. Livesey - 1882 - 232 pàgines
...Scotland. J Portentous, full of portents or wonders. t Volumed, in great volumes, or heaps, of cloud. 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 t... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - 1882 - 420 pàgines
...presence keeps the thought awake Of him I slew that summer eve. JAMES W. WATSON. THE DEATH OF MARMION. WIDE raged the battle on the plain; Spears shook,...flashed amain; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain; And crests of Scottish chieftains brave Floated like foam upon the wave; Yet still amid the tumult... | |
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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;... 
