 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pagina’s
...first, the ridge of mingled spears Above the brightening cloud appears ; And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then marked...chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave; * The battle of Flodden was fought between the English, commanded by Earl Surrey, and the Scots, commanded... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 pagina’s
...the ridge of mingled spears Above the brightening cloud appears ; And in the smoke the pennons new, As in the storm the white sea-mew, Then marked they,...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... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 pagina’s
...first, the ridge of mingled spears Above the brightening cloud appears; And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then marked...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 pagina’s
...smoke the pennons flew, As in tho storm the white sea-mew. Then marked they, dashing broad and f.ir, 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 falehions flashed... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 pagina’s
...cloud appears ; 5 And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then mark'd they, dashing broad and far, The broken billows of the war, And plumed crests of chieftains brave, 10 Floating like foam upon the wave ; But nought distinct they see. Wide raged the battle on the plain... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 pagina’s
...smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then niark'd they, dashing broad and fa*, The broken billows of the war, And plumed crests of chieftains brave, 10 Floating like foam upon the wave ; But nought distinct they see. Wide raged the battle ( n the plain... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 pagina’s
...first, the ridge of mingled spears Above the brightening cloud appears ; And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew, Then marked...of the war, And plumed crests of chieftains brave, Floatmg like foam upon the wave ; But nought distinct they see : Wide raged the battle on the plain... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pagina’s
...first, the ridge of mingled spears Above the brightening cloud appears ; And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then marked...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... | |
 | Beauties - 1865 - 96 pagina’s
...in the smoke the pennons flew, The Battle oj Hodden. As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then mark'd they, dashing broad and far, The broken billows 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 flash'd... | |
 | John Walker - 1865 - 800 pagina’s
...cloud appears ; And in the smoke the pennons flew, i As in tho storm the white sea-mew. Then mnrked they, dashing broad and far. The broken billows of...crests of chieftains brave Floating like foam upon tho wave." These may be considered the principal, they are by no means all the forms, in which the... | |
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At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud of battle cast; And first the ridge of mingled spears 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... 
