 | 1900 - 608 pages
...clumsy ; so that though he recovers himself in the final line, the general effect is much damaged : ' Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve...morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array. The thunder- clouds close o'er it, which when rent, The earth is covered... | |
 | 1902 - 642 pages
...were almost forced from him despite his will by the spirit of poetry : ' Last noon beheld them lull of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly...The morn the marshalling in arms ; the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it.1 Never, indeed, was there a better theme... | |
 | 1831 - 492 pages
...full of lusty life, Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal sound of strife, The morn, the marshalling in arms — the...thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse, — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent !" When shall that mighty... | |
 | 1816 - 274 pages
...instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve...midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshaling in anus, — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er... | |
 | 1817 - 862 pages
...fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve...thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse,— friend, foe,— m one red burial blent ! LINES LINES Written in... | |
 | 1817 - 590 pages
...the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. XXVIII. ' Last noon beheld them lull of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly...thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse, — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent !' A beautiful elegiac... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1817 - 860 pages
...liery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve...morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's magnificently -stern army ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...them , but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling 0ii the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder...Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal- sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's magnificently- stern... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 304 pages
...now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall...thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is cover'd thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heap'd and pent, Rider and horse, —... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...Which now beneath them, but shove shall grow In its next verdure, when the fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall...The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The mom the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's magniGcenlly-stern array ! The thunder-clouds close... | |
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Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning... 
