 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 pages
...Is Wilton there T With that, straight up the hill there rode Two horsemen drench'd with gore, And hi their arms, a helpless load, A wounded knight they bore. His hand still strain'd the broken brand ; His arms were smear' d with blood and sand : Dragg'd from among the horses'... | |
 | 1856 - 518 pages
...such scanty room, The bars, descending, razed his plume. WALTKB Soon 41. THE DEATH OF MARMION. WITH that, straight up the hill there rode Two horsemen...horses' feet, With dinted shield, and helmet beat, The falcon-crest and plumage gone, Can that be haughty Marmion ? When, doffed his casque, he felt free... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...The cry they heard — its meaning knew, could plain their distant comrades view. * i « « But lo ! straight up the hill there rode two horsemen, drenched...they bore. His hand still strained the broken brand ; Ms arms were smeared with blood and sand ; dragged from among the horses' feet, with dinted shield,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...but to die,— "Is Wilton there?" With that, straight up the hill there rode Two horsemen drench'd with gore, And in their arms, a helpless load, A wounded knight they bore. His hand still strain'd the broken brand; His arms were smear'd with blood and sand : Dragg'd from among the horses'... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1856 - 624 pages
...Chester, eharge! — On, Stanley, on! Were the Ust words of Marmion. Seott's Marmion. IIis hand stdl strained the broken brand; His arms were smeared with blood and sand. Seotl's Marmion. All in tho eastle were at rest; When sudden on the windows shone A lightning flash,... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...Wilton there ? " They fly, or maddened by despair, Fight but to die.—" Is Wilton there? "— With that, straight up the hill there rode Two horsemen...and helmet beat, The falcon crest and plumage gone, 72 Can that be haughty Marmion ! Young Blount his armour did unlace, And, gazing on his ghastly face,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 364 pages
...Wilton there ? ' They fly, or, maddened by despair, Fight but to die, — ' Is Wilton there ? ' — With that, straight up the hill there rode Two horsemen...bore. His hand still strained the broken brand ; His arras were smeared with blood and sand : Dragged from among the horses' feet, With dinted shield, and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 428 pages
...to die, — " Is Wilton there ? " With that, straight up the hill there rode Two horsemen drench'd with gore, And in their arms a helpless load, A wounded knight they bore. His hand still strain'd the broken brand ; His arms were smear'd with blood and sand : Dragg'd from among the horses'... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 420 pages
...to die, — " Is Wilton there ? " With that, straight up the hill there rode Two horsemen drench'd with gore, And in their arms a helpless load, A wounded knight they bore. His hand still strain'd the broken brand ; His arms were smear'd with blood and sand : Dragg'd from among the horses'... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...from his head, Housing and saddle bloody red, Lord M -i 1 1 ii ii m '- steed rushed by. Soon after, up the hill there rode Two horsemen, drenched with...horses' feet, With dinted shield, and helmet beat, The falcon-crest and plumage gone; Can that be haughty Marnnonr They doffed his casque, he felt free air,... | |
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Dragged from among the horses feet, With dinted shield, and helmet beat, The falcon-crest and plumage gone, Can that be haughty Marmion ! . . Young Blount his... 
