 THEY rose to where their sovran eagle sails, They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height, Chaste, frugal, savage, arm'd by day and night Against the Turk; whose inroad nowhere scales Their headlong passes, but his footstep fails, And red with...  The Nineteenth Century - Page 3591877Full view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1877 - 826 pages
...MONTENEGRO. BY ALFRED TENNYSON. THEY rose to where their sovran eagle sails, They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height, Chaste, frugal, savage,...flight By thousands down the crags and thro' the vales. O smallest among peoples ! rough rock-throne Of Freedom ! warriors beating back the swarm Of Turkish... | |
 | English poetry - 1878 - 300 pages
...sovran eagle sails, They kept their faith, their freedom, ou the height, Chaste, frugal, savage, armed by day and night Against the Turk ; whose inroad nowhere...hundreds, in prone flight By thousands down the crags and through the vales. 0 smallest among peoples ! rough rock-throne Of freedom ! warriors beating back... | |
 | R. A. Hammond - Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878 - 1878 - 512 pages
...sovran eagle sails. They kept their faith, their freedom on the height. Chaste, frugal, savage, armed by day and night Against the Turk ; whose inroad nowhere...fails, And red with blood the Crescent reels from fis;ht Before their dauntless hundreds, in prone flight By thousands down the crags and thro' the vales.... | |
 | Literature - 1878 - 294 pages
...eagle sails, They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height, Chaste, frugal, savage, arm'd clay and night Against the Turk; whose inroad nowhere scales...fails, And red with blood the Crescent reels from ficht Before their dauntless hundreds, in prone flight By thousands down the crags and thro the vales.... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
...Century, May, 1877) :— MONTENEGRO. They rose to where their sovran eagle sails, They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height, Chaste, frugal, savage,...flight By thousands down the crags and thro' the vales. O smallest among peoples ! rough rock-throne Of Freedom 1 warriors beating back the swarm Of Turkish... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1880 - 204 pages
...you in a day. II 2 MONTENEGRO. THEY rose to where their sovran eagle sails, They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height, Chaste, frugal, savage,...from fight Before their dauntless hundreds, in prone fight By thousands down the crags and thro' the vales. O smallest among peoples ! rough rock-throne... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - 1881 - 242 pages
...foam. AUBREY DE VERB. MONTENEGRO. HEY rose to where their sovran eagle sails, They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height, Chaste, frugal, savage,...flight By thousands down the crags and thro' the vales. O smallest among peoples ! rough rock-throne Of Freedom ! warriors beating back the swarm Of Turkish... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...sovran eagle sails, They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height, Chaste, frugal, savage, artn'd by day and night Against the Turk ; whose inroad nowhere...flight By thousands down the crags and thro' the vales. O smallest among peoples ! rough rock-throne Of Freedom ! warriors beating back the swarm Of Turkish... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - Sonnets, English - 1882 - 384 pages
...sovran eagle sails, They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height, Chaste, frugal, savage, armed by day and night Against the Turk; whose inroad nowhere...hundreds, in prone flight By thousands down the crags and through the vales. O smallest among peoples ! rough rock-throne Of Freedom ! warriors beating back... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Mätzner - English language - 1882 - 564 pages
...wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea (TENNY6., Ballads &c. p. 24.). They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height, Chaste, frugal, savage, arm'd by day and night Against the Turk (ib. p. 203.). Forgetful of your station and my own (SHERID. KNOWLES, Hunchb. 4, 2.). Is Heav'n unkind... | |
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