Ballads of Battle and BraveryHarper, 1879 - 153 oldal |
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18. oldal
... wind for France When we our sails advance , Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main , At Kaux , the mouth of Seine , With all his martial train , Landed King Harry . And taking many a fort , Furnished in ...
... wind for France When we our sails advance , Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main , At Kaux , the mouth of Seine , With all his martial train , Landed King Harry . And taking many a fort , Furnished in ...
43. oldal
... wind from the lands they had ruined awoke from sleep , And the water began to heave and the weather to moan , And or ever that evening ended , a great gale blew , And a wave like the wave that is raised by an earth- quake grew , Till it ...
... wind from the lands they had ruined awoke from sleep , And the water began to heave and the weather to moan , And or ever that evening ended , a great gale blew , And a wave like the wave that is raised by an earth- quake grew , Till it ...
48. oldal
... winds the path to Kinnegad — you know that togher well . " And couch ye close amid the heath , and blades of waving fern , So glint of steel , or glimpse of men , no Saxon may discern , Until ye hear my bugle blown , and up O'Conor then ...
... winds the path to Kinnegad — you know that togher well . " And couch ye close amid the heath , and blades of waving fern , So glint of steel , or glimpse of men , no Saxon may discern , Until ye hear my bugle blown , and up O'Conor then ...
71. oldal
... wind , by God's grace . See the noble fellow's face , As the big ship , with a bound , Clears the entry like a hound , Keeps the passage as its inch of way were the wide sea's profound ! See , safe through shoal and rock , How they ...
... wind , by God's grace . See the noble fellow's face , As the big ship , with a bound , Clears the entry like a hound , Keeps the passage as its inch of way were the wide sea's profound ! See , safe through shoal and rock , How they ...
76. oldal
... wind , Their bayonets the breakers ' foam , like rocks the men behind ; One volley crashes from their line , when through the surging smoke , With empty guns clutched in their hands , the head- long Irish broke . On Fontenoy , on ...
... wind , Their bayonets the breakers ' foam , like rocks the men behind ; One volley crashes from their line , when through the surging smoke , With empty guns clutched in their hands , the head- long Irish broke . On Fontenoy , on ...
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18. oldal - River where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Nethe'rby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late: For. a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
75. oldal - So through the night rode Paul Revere; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore!
35. oldal - And the masts and the rigging were lying over the side; But Sir Richard cried in his English pride, "We have fought such a fight for a day and a night As may never be fought again! We have won great glory, my men!
89. oldal - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
72. oldal - On the sombre rafters, that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade, — By the trembling ladder, steep and tall, To the highest window in the wall, Where he paused to listen and look down A moment on the roofs of the town And the moonlight flowing over all.
118. oldal - The heroes' sepulchre. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead! Dear as the blood ye gave; No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave; Nor shall your glory be forgot While Fame her record keeps, Or Honor points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps. Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone In deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished age hath flown, The story how ye fell; Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, Nor Time's remorseless doom.
46. oldal - TELL me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more.
71. oldal - If the British march By land or sea from the town tonight, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,— One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.
10. oldal - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand or freeman fa', Let him follow me!
74. oldal - He has left the village and mounted the steep, And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep, Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides; And under the alders that skirt its edge, Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge, Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.