 On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her...  A poetical grammar of the English language - Page 121by Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Quaver - Songs - 1844 - 552 pages
...as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. Bnt Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night. Commanding fires of death to light...shook the hills with thunder riven, Then rushed the steeds to battle driven, And louder than {he bolts of heaven, Far flashed the red artillery. And redder... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat er, and stood still, Staring awhile ; then bursting...moonlight scene: — How calmly, gliding through ever; charger neighed To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills with thunder riven, Then rushed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...dark as winter was the flow Of leer, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat y on ; no venomed snake Can shelter in so cool a brake — Child of the sun, he lores to lie 'Midst nat faet arrayed, £ach horseman drew his battle-blade, And furious every charger neighed To join the dreadful... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...dark as winter was the flow Of Iser rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light...torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every charger neighed To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills,... | |
 | Friedrich W. D. Brie - English literature - 1923 - 328 pages
...Linden saw another sight When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light 8 The darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every charger neighed 12 To join the dreadful revelry. But redder yet that... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - English literature - 1924 - 942 pages
...dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat 8 > D 8- ٦9 о + r+ m qN L:a |6 mR %L ܰ|J/N + ᔬYD fxz X 2]!w J 2 V sn f battle blade, And furious every charger neighed, To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. fa umpet fas By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Kach horseman drew his battle-blade, And furious every... | |
 | American poetry - 1927 - 490 pages
...dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. 87 torch and trumpet fast array'd, Each horseman drew his battle-blade, And furious every charger neigh'd,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1928 - 374 pages
...as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. ' But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light...darkness of her scenery. ' By torch and trumpet fast array "d, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every charger neigh'd, To join the dreadful... | |
 | Gordon Stables - Americans - 1928 - 336 pages
...CHAPTER I The Eagle Swoops Down from His Eyrie " But Linden showed another sight, When drums beat at the dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of the scenery." " Cry ' Havoc ! ' and let slip the dogs of war." HAD you been walking alone on the seabeach... | |
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