 | Belle Boyd, Sam Wilde Hardinge - 1865 - 320 pagina’s
...of the combat. Here we sat some short time, absorbed in the struggle that was going on beneath us. " The broken billows of the war, And plumed crests of...chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave." But this calm feeling was not of long duration. I was mounted upon a white horse, which was quite conspicuous... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 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... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 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 naught distinct they see : Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and falchions flashed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 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 ; Bat nought distinct they see : Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and falchions flashed... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pagina’s
...brightening cloud appears ; 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...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'il... | |
 | Richard St. John Tyrwhitt - 1868 - 520 pagina’s
...Oreb and Zeb,' the Raven and the Wolf/ as a parallel example in the East; 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 . . . Amid the scene of tumult, high They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly ; And stainless Tunstnll's... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pagina’s
...the brightening cloud appears ; And in the smoke the pennons flew, As In the storm the white scamew. Then marked they, dashing broad and far The broken...chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave; Bat nought distinct they see : Wide raged the battle en the plain ; Spears shook, and fanlchions flushed... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 pagina’s
...brightening cloud appears; And in the smoke the pennons Hew, Aa in the storm the white sea-mew. Then mark'd they, dashing broad and far, The broken billows of the war, And plum'd crests of chieftains brave Floating like foam upon the wave; But not distinct they see; Wide... | |
 | 1869 - 384 pagina’s
...us. ' 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. " A moment our eyes are dazzled by the multiplicity of the objects presented to us ; the next, one... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 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... | |
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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... 
