But hark! — that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Arm! Arm! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's... Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt - Page 119by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1885 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...marriage-bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! * ** " Within a windowed nirhe of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain...Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd his father on a bloody... | |
| 1816 - 274 pages
...before ! Arm ! Arm, it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar ! Witfein a windowed niche of ihat high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did...festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic car ; Macpherjon, Printer, Russell Court, Covent Garden. And when they smiled because he deem'd it... | |
| English literature - 1816 - 692 pages
...a rising knell! * * • Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, " Within a windowed nirhe of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound the first amidst tile festival, And caught its' tone with Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he deem'd... | |
| Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1817 - 860 pages
...nearer, clearer, deadlier than before ! Arm ! arm ! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar ! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's...death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he derni'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd his father on a bloody... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 860 pages
...nearer, clearer, deadlier than before ! Arm ! arm ! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar ! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's...death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he t'ecm'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch' tl his father on a bloody... | |
| English literature - 1817 - 552 pages
...Arm ! Arm ! it is— it is the cannon's opening roar ! Within a windowed niche ofthat high hall .Bate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound...Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...it is— it is— the cannon's opening roar! XXIII. Within a windowed niche of that high hall S*te Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound...Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he desm'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which slrctch'd his father on a bloody... | |
| John Edgecombe Daniel - Europe - 1820 - 532 pages
...deadlier than before ! Arm ! Arm ! it is. — it is— the cannon's opening roar ! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain...Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody... | |
| Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...And nearer , clearer , deadlier than before! Arm! Arm! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the ßrst amidst the festival, And caught its tone wuh Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...And ' all went merry as a marriage-bell; But hush! hark I a deep sound strikes like a rising kuell .' XXII. Did ye not hear it? — No; 'twas but the wind,...Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he dcem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd his father on a bloody... | |
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