That swathes, as with a purple shroud, Benledi's distant hill. Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground The warrior's measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glance That on the thicket streams,... The poetical works of sir Walter Scott - Seite 235von sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 823 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1894 - 576 Seiten
...springing trout lies still, So darkly glooms yon thunder-cloud That swathes as with a purple shroud Benledi's distant hill. • Is it the thunder's solemn...flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring beams ? ' Xature is mute, motionless and gloomy in expectation of the coming strife. How finely, too, is... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 Seiten
...springing trout lies still, So darkly glooms yon thunder cloud, That swathes, as with a purple shroud, XV. Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep...cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 Seiten
...thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground The warriors' measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glance...cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bonne for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 Seiten
...springing trout lies still, So darkly glooms yon thunder cloud, That swathes, as with a purple shroud, Benledi's distant hill. Is it the thunder's solemn...flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring beams i — I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war,... | |
| John Young - 1810 - 432 Seiten
...it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread ; Or echoes from the groaning ground 134 Is it the lightning's quivering glance That on the...spear and lance The sun's retiring beams ? I see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 Seiten
...springing trout lies still, So darkly glooms yon thunder cloud, That swathes, as with a purple shroud; Benledi's distant hill. Is it the thunder's solemn...warrior's measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glanc* That on the thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lane* The sun's retiring heams ?... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 Seiten
...springing trout lies still, So darkly glooms yon thunder-cloud, That swathes, as with a purple shroud, Benledi's distant hill. Is it the thunder's solemn...cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far! 6 To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful... | |
| John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 228 Seiten
...irregular square, or market-place whichforms the centre of the village." — Monastery, Vol. III. eh. 12. " Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep...spear and lance The sun's retiring beams ? I see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake... | |
| John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 228 Seiten
...square, or market-place which forms the centre of the village." — Monastery, Vol. III. ch. 12. " Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep...thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lance I The sun's retiring beams ? I see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wavo o'«r... | |
| John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 340 Seiten
...thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring beams ? I see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the...cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! * * * * * No cymbal clashed, no clarion rang, Still were the pipe and drum ; Save heavy tread,... | |
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