 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...what, warder, ho ! Let the portcullis fall."— Lord Marmion turn'd,— well was his need, And dashed the rowels in his steed, Like arrow through the archway...scanty room, The bars, descending, razed his plume. DEATH OF MARMIO.N. WITH that, straight up the hill there rode Two horsemen drench'd with gore, And... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...warder, ho ! Let the portcullis fall."— Lord Marmiou turned, — well was his need, — And dashed the rowels in his steed, Like arrow through the archway sprung — The ponderous gate behind him rung : To pass there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, razed his plume !... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...what, warder, ho ! Let the portcullis fall." Lord Marmion turn'd — well was his need, And dash'd the rowels in his steed. Like arrow through the archway...scanty room, The bars, descending, razed his plume. The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembled on the rise ; Not lighter does the swallow... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pages
...what, Warder, ho! Let the portcullis fall."— Lord Marmion turn'd, — well was his need, And dash'd the rowels in his steed, Like arrow through the archway...drawbridge flies, Just as it trembled on the rise ; Nor lighter does the swallow skim Along the smooth lake's level brim : And when Lord Marmion reach'd... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...what, warder, ho ! Let the portcullis fall.' — Lord Marmion turn'd,— well was his need, And dash'd the rowels in his steed, Like arrow through the archway sprung, The ponderous gate behind him rung : To pass there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, razed his plume. The... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pages
..."warder, ho 1 Let the "portcullis fall." Lord Marmion turned, — well was his need, — And dashed the "rowels in his steed, Like arrow through the archway sprung, — The ponderous gate behind him rung: . To pass there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, razed his plume.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 pages
...Warder, ho ' Let the portcullis fall."1— Tx>rd Marrnion turned, — well was his need, And dashed the rowels in his steed, Like arrow through the archway sprung, The ponderous gate behind him rung : To pass there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, razed his plume. XV... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1867 - 670 pages
...turn'd,—well was tuneed. And dash'd the rowels in his steed. Like arrow through the archway sprar-S. The ponderous grate behind him rung : To pass there...such scanty room. The bars, descending, razed his plumt The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembled on the rise ; Nor lighter does the... | |
 | sir Charles Cavendish Clifford (4th bart.) - 1867 - 282 pages
...show that the famous passage of Marmion skedaddling over the drawbridge was arrant nonsense : — ' " To pass there was such scanty room, The bars descending razed his plume." ' How could that be ?' said I. ' If the portcullis really touched his feathers, by all the laws of... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 pages
...what, Warder, ho! Let the portcullis fall."— o Lord Marmiou turn'd, — well was his need, And dnsh'd the rowels in his steed, Like arrow through the archway...there was such scanty room, The bars, descending, raxed his plume. xv. The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembled on the rise; Nor lighter... | |
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Lord Marmion turned — well was his need — And dashed the rowels in his steed, Like arrow through the archway sprung, The ponderous grate behind him rung; To pass there was such scanty room, The bars descending razed his plume. 
