Marmion: A Tale of Flodden FieldAmerican Book Company, 1892 - 247 Seiten |
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Abbess Angus arms band battle beneath Blount bold Border bower brand brow Canto castle Clare Constance courser dame dark deep Douglas e'er Edinburgh England English Ettrick Forest Eustace fair falcon fear fell fight fire Fitz-Eustace Flodden gallant Glossary grave hall hand hath hear heard heart heaven Henry VIII heraldry hill holy horse host King of Scotland knight Lady land light Lindesay Lindisfarne Lochinvar look Lord Marmion loud maid merry minstrels monk mountain naught ne'er noble Norham North North Sea Northumberland o'er Palmer passed peace Perchance plain pray prayer rest river Roman Catholic Church round royal rude sable Saint Cuthbert Saint George Saint Hilda's scarce Scotch Scotland Scottish shield spear spoke squire steed stood tale Tantallon tell term of heraldry thee thou thought tide tower train Twas Tweed war horse Whitby Whitby Abbey Whitby's wild Wilton
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Seite 165 - thy vassals near, (Nay, never look upon your lord, And lay your hands upon your sword,•') I tell thee, thou'rt defied! And if thou saidst I am not peer To any lord in Scotland here. Lowland or Highland, far or near, Lord Angus, thou hast lied!" On the earl's cheek the flush of rage
Seite 169 - and vain ? Small risk of that, I trow. Yet Clare's sharp questions must I shun, Must separate Constance from the Nun °— Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive! A Palmer too! no wonder why I felt rebuked beneath his eye: I might have known there was but one Whose look could quell Lord Marmion.
Seite 125 - Among bridesmen, and kinsmen, and brothers, and all: Then spoke the bride's father, his hand on his sword, (For the poor craven bridegroom said never a word,) " Oh! come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar ? " — " I long wooed your daughter, my suit you denied; Love swells like the Solway,
Seite 165 - Burned Marmion's swarthy cheek like fire, And shook his very frame for ire, And—"This to me!" he said,— " An 'twere not for thy hoary beard, Such hand as Marmion's had not spared To cleave the Douglas' head! And first I tell thee, haughty peer, He who does England's message here,
Seite 166 - O'ercame the ashen hue of age: Fierce he broke forth : "And darest thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall ? And hopest thou hence unscathed : to go? No, by Saint Bride 2 of Bothwell, no! Up drawbridge,
Seite 166 - his plume. xv. The steed along the drawbridge flies, Just as it trembled on the rise; Nor lighter does the swallow skim Along the smooth lake's level brim : And when Lord Marmion reached his band, He halts, and turns with clinched hand, And shout of loud defiance pours, And shook his gauntlet
Seite 164 - Of cold respect to stranger guest, Sent hither by your King's behest, While in Tantallon's towers I staid, Part we in friendship from your land, And, noble earl, receive my hand." But Douglas round him drew his cloak, Folded his arms, and thus he spoke : 1
Seite 185 - Of the Redeemer's grace divine ; Oh, think on faith and bliss! — By many a deathbed I have been, And many a sinner's parting seen, But never aught like this." The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swelled the gale, And " Stanley!
Seite 165 - My castles are my King's alone, From turret to foundation-stone — The hand of Douglas is his own, And never shall in friendly grasp The hand of such as Marmion clasp." XIV. Burned Marmion's swarthy cheek like fire, And shook his very frame for ire,
Seite 185 - voice was in his ear, And that the priest he could not hear; For that she ever sung, "In the lost battle, borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle with groans of the dying.'" So the notes rung; —