 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 ; But nought distinct they see : Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and falchions flashed amain...  Marmion;: A Tale of Flodden Field - Pagina 356door Walter Scott - 1808 - 377 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pagina’s
...shook, aud falchions flash'd amain; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain ; Crest* rose, and sloop'd, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Amid the scene...They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly : And stainless Tumuli's banner white, And Edmund Howard's lion bright, Still bear them bravely in the fight; Although... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pagina’s
...; But nought distinct they see : Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and falchions* flashed amain ; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Yet still Lord Marmion's falcont flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle yell.... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pagina’s
...raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and falchions flashed amain ; Fell England's arrow flight like rain : Crests rose, and stooped, and rose again,...Tunstall's banner white, And Edmund Howard's- lion bright, Stil) bear them bravely in the fight, Although against them come, Of gallant Gordons many a one, And... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pagina’s
...shook, and falchions fiash'd amain ; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain ; Crests rose, and stoop'd, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Amid the scene...Tunstall's banner white, And Edmund Howard's lion bright, our opinion, at all comparable, for interest and animation, — for breadth of drawing and magnificence... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pagina’s
...wave; But nought distinct they see : Wide raged the hattle on the plain ; Spears shook, and falchious flashed amain ; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain...stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Amid the seene of tumult, high They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly: And stainless Tunstall's hanner whlte, And... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1844 - 374 pagina’s
...opened with doubtful success — " Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and falchions flashed amain ; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly." In the centre, fortune smiled upon the gallant * It is very remarkable, no matter how dissimilar in... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...ware ; But nought distinct they see : Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and falchions flashed amain ; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. [Evening fell on the deadly struggle, and the spectators were forced from the agitating scene,] But... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pagina’s
...wave ; But nought distinct they see : Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and falchions $ [Evening fell on the deadly struggle, and the «pectators were forced from tho agitating scene.] But... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 pagina’s
...shook, and falchions flash'd amain ; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain ; Crests rose, and stoop'd, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Amid the scene...They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly : And stainless TunstalPs banner white, And Edmund Howard's lion bright, Still bear them bravely in the fight ; Although... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pagina’s
...triumph and despair. Long looked the anxious squires 5 their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening western blast, Aside the...stainless Tunstall's banner white And Edmund Howard's lion brigh* Still bear them bravely in the fight, Although against them come, Of gallant Gordons many a... | |
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