drum beat, at dead of night. Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast array'd. Each horseman drew his battle-blade, And furious every charger neigh'd. To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills... The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell - Seite 86von Thomas Campbell - 1837 - 306 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Thomas Campbell - 1803 - 162 Seiten
...snow; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death...revelry. Then shook the hills, with thunder riven; i f Then flew the steed, to battle driven; And, louder than the bolts of Heaven, Far flash'd the red... | |
| 1803 - 520 Seiten
...And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser rolling rapidly. But Linden shew'd another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death,...torch and trumpet fast array'd, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every charger neigh'd, To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1803 - 1298 Seiten
...snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of kser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death...of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast array'd, S Each horseman draw his battle.blade, And furious every charger neigh'd, To join the dreadful revelry.... | |
| 1803 - 502 Seiten
...And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser rolling rapidly. But Linden shew'd another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death,...darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast arrayM, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every charger neigh'd, To join the dreadful... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1814 - 274 Seiten
...And dark as winter was the flow I Of Iser, rolling rapidly. I But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night. Commanding fires of death...torch and trumpet fast array'd, Each horseman drew his battle blade. And furious every charger neigh'd, To join the dreadful revelry. But redder yet that... | |
| Scottish songs - 1816 - 378 Seiten
...the Address of BRUCE to his troops, and £are me a copy for But Linden show'd another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills, by thunder riven— Then flew the steed to battle... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 Seiten
...And dark as winter was the flow Of Iter rolling rapidly : But Linden show'd another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death, to light n raptur'd strains thy praise was hymn d ot old, And still resounds on Ganges' faithful shores ! The... | |
| Titus Strong - 1819 - 248 Seiten
...snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, "When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death...torch and trumpet fast array'd, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every charger neigli'd, To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 188 Seiten
...snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death...torch and trumpet fast array'd, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every charger neigh'd, To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 Seiten
...And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden shew'd another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death...The darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet sound array'd, Each horseman drew his battle blade; And fiirious every charger neigh'd, To join the... | |
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