 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 pàgines
...Yet still Lord Mannion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The border Slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon...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 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pàgines
...smile, cheer" d Scotland's light. Then fell that spotless banner white, — The Howard's lion fell ; Yet still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering...battle-yell. The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home I a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 pàgines
...fickle smile, cheered Scotland's fight. Then fell that spotless banner white, The Howard's lion fell ; Yet still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering...slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Lond were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 340 pàgines
...like foam upon the wave ; Yet still amid the tumult high England saw Marmion's pennon fly. The b5rder slogan rent the sky : " A Home ! a Gordon ! " was...— 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 pàgines
...fickle smile, cheered Scotland's fight. Then fell that spotless banner white, The Howard's lion fell ; e ! sad relic of departed worth ! Immortal, though...fallen, great ! Who now shall lead thy scattered »igt». The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds,... | |
 | 1871 - 908 pàgines
...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 248 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...Floated like foam upon the wave ; Yet still amid the tumult high England saw Marmion's pennon fly. The border slogan rent the sky : " A Home ! a Gordon...— 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... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 pàgines
...fickle emile, cheered Scotland's fight 8. Then fell that spotless banner white, The Howard's lion fell ; Yet still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering...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 high The... | |
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The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail,... 
