 It seemed as if their mother Earth Had swallowed up her warlike birth. The wind's last breath had tossed in air Pennon, and plaid, and plumage fair ; The next but swept a lone hill-side, Where heath and fern were waving wide : • The sun's last gla.nce...  The Port Folio - Page 4001810Full view - About this book
 | 1810 - 538 pages
...or bracken, heath or wood ; Sunk brand and spear and bended bow, In osiers pale and copses low ; 1 1 seemed as if their mother Earth Had swallowed up her...wind's last breath had tossed in air, Pennon, and plaij, and plumage fair, — The next but swept a lone hill side, Where heath and fern were waving... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...broom or bracken, heath or wood ; Sunk brand and spear and bended bow, In osiers pale and copses low ; It seemed as if their mother Earth Had swallowed up...waving wide ; The sun's last glance was glinted back, From lance and glaive, from targe and jack, — The next, all unreflected, shone On bracken green,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...broom or bracken, heath or wood ; Sunk brand and spear and bended bow, In osiers pale and copses low ; It seemed as if their mother Earth Had swallowed up...waving wide ; The sun's last glance was glinted back, From spear and glaive, from targe and jack, — The next, all unreflected, shone On bracken green,... | |
 | Religion - 1811 - 872 pages
...broom or bracken, heath or wood ; Sunk brand and spear and bended bow, In oslen pale and copses low : It seemed as if their mother earth Had swallowed up her warlike birth. Tlie wind's last breath bad tossed in air, VVnnun. aud pbiid, and plumage fair, — The next but swept... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 138 pages
...the evening blast, And the low tun-beam gildt a deiert waste. P.6T. The wind's last breath had toss'd in air, Pennon, and plaid, and plumage fair, — The...waving wide ; The sun's last glance was glinted back From spear and glaive, from targe and jack, — The next, all nnreflected, shone On bracken green,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...hroom or hracken, heath or wood ; Sunk hrand and spear and hended how, In osiers pale and copses low ; It seemed as if their mother Earth Had swallowed up her warlike hirth. The wind's last hreath had tossed in air Pennon, and plaid, and plumage fair; The next, hut... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 pages
...seem'd as if their mother Earth Had swallow'd up her warlike birth. The wind's last breath had toss'd in air, Pennon, and plaid, and plumage fair,— The...waving wide; The sun's last glance was glinted back, From spear and glaive, from targe and jack,— The next, all unreflected, shone On bracken green, and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...seem'd as if their mother Earth Had swallow'd up her warlike birth. The wind's last breath had toss'd in air, Pennon, and plaid, and plumage fair, — The...waving wide ; The sun's last glance was glinted back, From spear and glaive, from targe and jack,— The next, all unreflected, shone Or bracken green, and... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - England - 1825 - 510 pages
...seem'il as if their mother Earth Had swallow'd up her warlike birth. The wind's list breath had toss'J in air, Pennon, and plaid, and plumage fair,— The...hill-side, Where heath and fern were waving wide; VOL. II. II The sun's last glance was glinted back, From spear and glaive, from Urge and jack, —... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pages
...broom or bracken, heath or wood ; Sank brand and spear and bended bow, In osiers pale and copses low ; It seemed as if their mother Earth Had swallowed up her warlike birth. The wind's last breath had toss'd in air, Pennon, and plaid, and plumage fair — The next bush swept a lone-hill side, Where... | |
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