 The rushes and the willow-wand Are bristling into axe and brand, And every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife. That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean...  The poetical works of Walter Scott - Seite 14von sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 Seiten
...life To plaided warrior armed for strife. 15 That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean...had given ; Watching their leader's beck and will, 20 All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags, whose threatening mass Lay tottering... | |
 | James Browne - 1849 - 570 Seiten
...times, viz., his despotic power in bis clan" That whistle garrison'd the glen At once with full five hundred men. As If the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had Riven. Watching their leader's beck und will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 Seiten
...gives life To plaided warrior arm'd for strife. That whistle garrison'd the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean...they stood, and still ; Like the loose crags, whose threat'ning mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong... | |
 | Thomas Forester - 1851 - 474 Seiten
...once the lurking foe : From shingles grey their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given." The Amakosa advance, horsemen in front, whilst pushing vigorously after them are long black lines of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 Seiten
...gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife. That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean...tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, , With step and weapon forward flung, Upon... | |
 | 1852 - 782 Seiten
...liln Tu plaided warrior arm'dfor slrife. That whisile tînrrison'd the glen Al once with full five hundred men . As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given. \Wching their leader's beck and will, All eilen! iherc they stood and still. Like ihe loose crags whose... | |
 | 1852 - 782 Seiten
...gives life To plaided warrior arm'd for strife. That whistle garrison'd the glen At once with full five hundred men . As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given. Wa'ching ilieir leader's beck and will, AH silen; there they stood and still. Like the loose crags... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1853 - 334 Seiten
...gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife. That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean...and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening masi Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, 179 As it an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 Seiten
...gives life To plaided warrior arm'd for strife. That whistle garrison'd the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean...there they stood and still. Like the loose crags whose threat'ning mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 Seiten
...life ' To plaided warrior arm'd for strife. That whistle garrison'd the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given.2 Watching their leader's beck and will,8 All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose... | |
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