 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...first,the ridge of mingled spean Above the brightening cloud appears ; And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then marked they,...chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave ; But nought distinct they sec : Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, andfalchions flashed... | |
 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1808 - 526 pages
...upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVII. At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud...brightening cloud appears ; And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then marked they dashing broad and far, The broken billows... | |
 | 1808 - 416 pages
...froin afar : " Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVII. At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud...the brightening cloud appears ; And in the smoke the peunons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then marked they, dashing broad and far, The broken... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 702 pages
...spears Above the brightening cloud appears ¡ And in the smuke the pennons flew, As iu'îhe storm tlte white sea-mew. Then marked they, dashing broad and...chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave ; But nought distinct they see : Wide raged the battle on the plain ; S|>cars shook, ?nd falchions... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...the ridge of mingled spears Above tlie brightening cloud appears, ; And in the smoke the pennons Hew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then marked they,...chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave ; But nought distinct they see: AVide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and falchions flashed... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 494 pages
...fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires ; their cyy Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud...brightening cloud appears, ; And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then marked they, dashing broad and far. The broken billows... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 532 pages
...brightening cloud appears ; And in the smoke -the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew, z 2 Then marked they, dashing broad and far The broken...chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave ; But nought distinct they see : Wide raged the battle on the plain ; Spears shook, and faulchions... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...and despair. Long looked the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVI. At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud...brightening cloud appears ; And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew, z 2 Then marked they, dashing broad and far The broken billows... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...the ridge of mingled spears Above the brightening cloud appears; And in the smoke the pennons ßew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then marked they...crests of chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wavt ; ' But nought distinct they see: W.ide raged the battle on the plain; Spears shook and falchions... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...and despair. Long look'd the anxious squires ; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVI. At length the freshening western blast Aside the shroud...brightening cloud appears ; And in the smoke the pennons flew, As in the storm the white sea-mew. Then mark'd they, dashing broad and far, The broken billows... | |
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As in the storm the white sea-mew, Then marked they, dashing broad and far The broken billows of the war, And plumed crests of chieftains brave, Floating like foam upon the wave... 
