 Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their King. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the...  Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity - Seite 321894Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 690 Seiten
...whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, I ' nl (Token was the ring; " The stubborn spearsmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
 | 1905 - 584 Seiten
...Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good a Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1907 - 706 Seiten
...Unbroken was the ring; " The stubborn spearsmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, K.-irh stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 992 Seiten
...the strife of death. The English shafts in volleys hail'd, In headlong charge their horse assail'd ; Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
 | G. Dowse - 1908 - 104 Seiten
...charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; is The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; so Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1909 - 992 Seiten
...break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their King. Butyet, though thicktheshaftsassnow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1917 - 1000 Seiten
...break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their King. Butyet, though thirkthe shafts assnow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
 | Peter Anderson Graham - 1921 - 412 Seiten
...the strife of death. The English shafts in volleys hail'd, In headlong charge their horse assail'd ; Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
 | Edward Albert - 1923 - 648 Seiten
...dealing with the death of Marmion and the close of the battle, is one of the triumphs of martial verse: But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1925 - 402 Seiten
...The Lay needs no apology ; Marmion includes the great tragedy of Scotland in the Battle of Flodden : The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
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