 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,...  Select Reviews - Page 351809Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1867 - 670 pages
...sky! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry: Loud were the clanging Hows; Advanced,—forced back,—now k*< now high. The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the pJ £ When rent are rigging, shrouds, ind su'< It waver'd 'mid the foes. I «ill not see it lost f... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pages
...sky! A Home! a Gordon! лгав the cry ! Loud were the clanging blows! Advanced,— forced buck,— now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered mid the foes, is о longer Jllount the view could bear : — " Jîy heaven, and all Us saints, 1 swear, I will not... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 pages
...With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border solgan rent the sky! A home! a Gordon! was the cry: Loud were the clanging blows; Advanced,— forced back, now low, How high, The pennon sunk and rose; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds,... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 pages
...With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The border Slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven, and all its saints ! I swear, I will not see it... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1869 - 244 pages
...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 pages
...wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home I a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging blows...— forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon stink and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 pages
...grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Lond were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back,...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blpunt the view conld bear : — ' By Heaven, and all its saints, I swear, May hid your beads,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 340 pages
...Yet still amid the tumult high England saw Marmion's pennon fly. The b5rder slogan rent the sky : " A Home ! a Gordon ! " was the cry ; Loud were the clanging...— 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 pages
...battle-yell. 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...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. 9. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven and all its saints II swear I will not see it... | |
 | John Nichol - 1893 - 264 pages
...farewell, Then shrieked the timid and stood still the brave." (4) " The Border slogan rent the sky, A Home ! a Gordon was the cry, Loud were the clanging...rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes." *12. Is the expression, the "prosody of prose" defensible? How does the rhythm of the following passages... | |
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