 | Henry Twells - 1864 - 318 pages
...lighted brand, In a bold determined hand, And the Prince of all the land Led them on. Like leviathans afloat Lay their bulwarks on the brine ; While the...flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April mom by the chime . As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep as death ; And the boldest... | |
 | Huguenot Society of London - Huguenots - 1914 - 660 pages
...Prince of all the land Led them on. Like leviathans afloat Lay their bulwarks on the brine ; White the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line...death ; And the boldest held his breath For a time. Now joy, old England, raise ! For the tidings of thy might, By the festal cities' blaze. While the... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1914 - 142 pages
...brand In a bold determined hand ; And the Prince of all the land Led them on. Like leviathans afloat 10 Lay their bulwarks on the brine, While the sign of...morn by the chime : As they drifted on their path 15 There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time. But the might of England... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1914 - 256 pages
...lighted brand In a bold determined hand, And the Prince of all the land Led them on. Like leviathans afloat Lay their bulwarks on the brine; While the...lofty British line: It was ten of April morn by the chime:1 As they drifted on their path There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath... | |
 | Cornelia Carhart Ward - English language - 1914 - 448 pages
...begins." That calm but pregnant exordium has perhaps no counterpart in the entire range of oratory. "There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath, For a time. " He then proceeded with his speech, but had not been going more than five minutes when a man of gigantic... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - English poetry - 1914 - 108 pages
...lighted brand In a bold, determined hand ; And the Prince of all the land Led them on. Like leviathans afloat, Lay their bulwarks on the brine, While the sign of battle flew O'er the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime : As they drifted on their path,... | |
 | Walter Barnes - English poetry - 1915 - 602 pages
...lighted brand In a bold determined hand, And the Prince of all the land Led them on Like leviathans afloat Lay their bulwarks on the brine, While the...boldest held his breath For a time. But the might of Engand flush 'd To anticipate tlfe scene ; And her van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between.... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 854 pages
...brand In a bold determin'd hand, And the Prince of all the land Led them on. Like leviathans afloat 10 d flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays: Compar'd...ears no heart-felt raptures raise; Nae unison hae 15 There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time. Bavaria, at the time... | |
 | Walter Barlow Stevens - Missouri - 1915 - 604 pages
...begins.' "That calm but pregnant exordium has perhaps no counterpart in the entire range of oratory. " 'There was silence deep as death ; And the boldest held his breath For a time.' • "He then proceeded with his speech, but had not been going more than five minutes until a man of... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...determin'd hand. By each gun the lighted brand And the Prince of all the land Led them on. 9 Like leviathans ges taught to flow in vai 18 But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene, And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the... | |
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Nelson and the North Sing the glorious day's renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the might of Denmark's crown, And her arms along the deep proudly shone; By each gun the lighted brand In a bold determined hand, And the Prince of all the land... 
