The lady of the lake, The lord of the Isles ,The lay of the last minstrel, and Marmion. With poems, notes, &c |
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... dread ; Yet , O loved maid , thy mirth refrain ! Thy hand is on a lion's mane . ' XIII . " " " Minstrel , ” the maid replied , and high Her father's soul glanced from her eye , " My debts to Roderick's house I know : All that a mother ...
... dread ; Yet , O loved maid , thy mirth refrain ! Thy hand is on a lion's mane . ' XIII . " " " Minstrel , ” the maid replied , and high Her father's soul glanced from her eye , " My debts to Roderick's house I know : All that a mother ...
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... dread , That kindled when at Beltane game Thou ledst the dance with Malcolm Græme ; Still , though thy sire the peace renew'd , Smoulders in Roderick's breast the feud ; Beware ! -But hark , what sounds are these ? My dull ears catch no ...
... dread , That kindled when at Beltane game Thou ledst the dance with Malcolm Græme ; Still , though thy sire the peace renew'd , Smoulders in Roderick's breast the feud ; Beware ! -But hark , what sounds are these ? My dull ears catch no ...
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... dread , The batter'd earth returns their tread . Then prelude light , of livelier tone , Express'd their merry marching on , Ere peal of closing battle rose , With mingled outcry , shrieks , and blows ; And mimic din of stroke and ward ...
... dread , The batter'd earth returns their tread . Then prelude light , of livelier tone , Express'd their merry marching on , Ere peal of closing battle rose , With mingled outcry , shrieks , and blows ; And mimic din of stroke and ward ...
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... dread could Malcolm spy In Ellen's quivering lip and eye , And eager rose to speak - but ere His tongue could hurry forth his fear , Had Douglas mark'd the hectic strife , Where death seem'd combating with life ; For to her cheek , in ...
... dread could Malcolm spy In Ellen's quivering lip and eye , And eager rose to speak - but ere His tongue could hurry forth his fear , Had Douglas mark'd the hectic strife , Where death seem'd combating with life ; For to her cheek , in ...
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... dread , Swell'd with the voices of the dead ; Far on the future battle - heath His eye beheld the ranks of death : Thus the lone Seer , from mankind hurl❜d , Shaped forth a disembodied world . One lingering sympathy of mind Still bound ...
... dread , Swell'd with the voices of the dead ; Far on the future battle - heath His eye beheld the ranks of death : Thus the lone Seer , from mankind hurl❜d , Shaped forth a disembodied world . One lingering sympathy of mind Still bound ...
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Page 53 - He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The font, reappearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory. The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest.
Page 66 - That day of wrath, .that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...
Page 13 - Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorn and hazel mingled there ; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff...
Page 92 - King James did rushing come. — Scarce could they hear or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close, — They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air; O life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.
Page 22 - Soldier, rest ! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking ; Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. In our isle's enchanted hall, Hands unseen thy couch are strewing, Fairy strains of music fall, Every sense in slumber dewing. Soldier, rest ! thy warfare o'er, Dream of fighting fields no more : Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Morn of toil, nor night of waking.
Page 14 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.
Page 84 - The train from out the castle drew, But Marmion stopped to bid adieu ; — " Though something I might plain," he said, " Of cold respect to stranger guest, Sent hither by your king's behest, While in Tantallon's towers I staid ; Part we in friendship from your land, And, noble earl, receive my hand.
Page 77 - Have, then, thy wish!"— he whistled shrill, And he was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe ; From shingles...
Page 98 - While many a broken band Disordered through her currents dash, To gain the Scottish land ; To town and tower, to down and dale, To tell red Flodden's dismal tale, And raise the universal wail. Tradition, legend, tune, and song Shall many an age that wail prolong ; Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife and carnage drear Of Flodden's fatal field. Where shivered was fair Scotland's spear And broken was her shield ! xxxv.
Page 49 - With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thundercloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town...