 Then marked they, dashing broad and far, 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 falchions flashed amain...  Marmion;: A Tale of Flodden Field - Page 356by Walter Scott - 1808 - 377 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Davidson (B.A.), Joseph Crosby Alcock - 1877 - 240 pages
...wave ; But nought distinct they see : Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and falchions flashed amain ; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. 6. I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free .Nature's grace, You cannot shut... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...; 10 But nought distinct they see : Wide raged the battle on the plain; Spears shook, and falchions flashed amain ; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain ; Crests rose, and stooped, and rose again, 15 Wild and disorderly. Amid the scene of tumult, high They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly : And stainless... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 232 pages
...wave ; But nought distinct they see. Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and falchions7 flashed amain ; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain...They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly : And stainless Tunstall's8 banner white, And Edmund Howard's9 lion bright, Still bear them bravely in the fight ;... | |
 | 1878 - 446 pages
...distinct they see : "Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and falchions flashed amain; Pell England's arrow-flight like rain; Crests rose, and...stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Amid the Bcene of tumult, high They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly: And stainless Tunstall's banner white, And... | |
 | Thomas Nelson (and sons, ltd.) - 1879 - 200 pages
...the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and 'falchions flashed 'amain; Fell England's arrow-flights like rain ; Crests rose, and stooped, and rose again,...Lord Marmion's falcon fly : And stainless Tunstall's banner9 white, And Edmund Howard's lion bright, 100 Still bear them bravely in the fight ; Although... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1879 - 414 pages
...far The broken billows of the war. Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and falchions flashed amain ; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Amidst the scene of tumult, high, They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly. And stainless Tunstatt's banner... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...wave; But noueht distinct they see: Wide raged the battle on the plain: Spears shook, and falchions amain ; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain ; Crests...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Evening fell on the deadly struggle, and the spectators were forced from the agitating scene. Led back... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 pages
...\ But naught distinct they see : While raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and falchions flashed amain ; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. * * * But as they left the darkening heath, More desperate grew the strife of death. The English shafts... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 474 pages
...shook, and falchions flash'd amain ; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain ; Crests rose, and stoop'd, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. Amid the scene...They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly : And stainless TunstaU's banner white, And Edmund Howard's lion bright, Still bear them bravely in the fight ; Although... | |
 | Thomas J. Livesey - 1882 - 232 pages
...great volumes, or heaps, of cloud. Wide raged the battle on the plain; Spears shook, and falchions * flashed amain; Fell England's arrow-flight like rain;...and stooped, and rose again, Wild and disorderly. But as they left the darkening heath, More desperate grew the strife of death; The English shafts t... | |
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