 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 pagina’s
...rowels in his steed, 7 Like arrow through the arch- way sprung, The ponderous grate behind him rung : To pass there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, grazed his plume. The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembled on the rise ; Not lighter does the swallow... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 364 pagina’s
...rowels in his steed, Like arrow through the archway sprung ; The ponderous grate behind him rung : To pass there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, grazed his plume. 15 The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembled on the rise ; Not lighter does the swallow... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 498 pagina’s
...rowels in his steed, Like arrow through the archway sprung; The "'"ponderous gate behind him rung: To pass there was' such scanty room, The bars, descending, grazed his plume. 5. The steed along the draw-bridge flies, Just as it trembled on the rise: Kot lighter does the swallow... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pagina’s
...the rowels in his steed Like arrow through the archway sprung ; The ponderous grate behind him rung ; To pass there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, grazed his plume. 9. The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembles on the rise ; Not lighter does the swallow... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1857 - 494 pagina’s
...the rowels in his steed ; Like arrow through the archway sprung, The ponderous gate behind him rung: To pass, there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, grazed his plume. • The steed along the drawbridge flies, Jast as it trembled on the rise: Not lighter does the swallow... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - 416 pagina’s
...the rowels in his steed; Like arrow through the archway sprung; The ponderous grate behind him rung; To pass there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, grazed his plume. Not lighter does the swallow skim Along the smooth lake's level brim; And when Lord Marmion reached... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 pagina’s
...the rowels in his steed, Like arrow through the archway sprung, The ponderous gate behind him rung: To pass there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, grazed his plume. The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembled on the rise ; Nor lighter does the swallow... | |
 | 1898 - 348 pagina’s
...the rowels in his steed ; Like arrow through the archway sprung; The ponderous grate behind him rung; To pass there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, grazed his plume. The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembles on the rise ; Not lighter does the swallow... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 704 pagina’s
...the rowels in his steed, Like arrow through the archway sprung, The ponderous gate behind him rung : To pass there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, grazed his plume. The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembled on the rise ; Nor lighter does the swallow... | |
 | Eugene Cunningham Branson - 1899 - 400 pagina’s
...the rowels in his steed; Like arrow through the archway sprung; The ponderous gate behind him rung; To pass, there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, grazed his plume. The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembles on the rise; Not lighter does the swallow... | |
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Up drawbridge, grooms — what, warder, ho ! Let the portcullis fall." — Lord Marmion turned, — well was his need, — And dashed the rowels in his steed, Like arrow through the archway sprung, The ponderous gate behind him rung; To pass there was... 
