 | George Burgess - 1850 - 362 pages
...mistaken ordeal, and the hosts of wretched gladiators, " Butchered to make a Roman holiday." X. in " hast noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in beauty's...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... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...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...signal-sound of strife— The morn, the marshalling in arms—the day, Battle's magnificently stern array! The thunder-clouds 5 close o'er it; which, when... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 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, —... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low i Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve....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,... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...the happiest of the happy ; When a spring lock that lay in ambush there, Fastened her down forever ! Last noon beheld them full of lusty life : Last eve,...morn, the marshalling in arms : the day, Battle's magnificently stern array ! From pavement rough, or frozen ground, The engine's rattling wheels resound... | |
 | 1816 - 592 pages
...living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. XXVIII. ' Lost noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's...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... | |
 | Ross Greig Woodman - 1992 - 200 pages
...which a moment ago I quoted the centre of Byron's pastoral myth summarize the pattern of this one too: Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve...The morn the marshalling in arms, - the day Battle's magnificently stern array! (3.28) Now, no one is going to claim that Byron invented the idea of such... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1995 - 412 pages
...then in stanza 28 the entire account becomes the prologue to the terrible bloodshed of 'friend, foe': Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve...The 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. XXVIII Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, 245 Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight...The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent 250 The earth is cover'd thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heap'd and pent, Rider... | |
 | Gerald Finley - 1999 - 280 pages
...though not patriotic thoughts, as the lines from Byron's Childe Harold (3.28) attached to it indicate: Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve...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, -... | |
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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... 
