 | 1894 - 576 pages
...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...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground The warriors' measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glance That on the...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, One glance... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...echoes from the groaning ground The 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 ? I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 pages
...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...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 life,... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 340 pages
...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...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 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pages
...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...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, One glance... | |
 | Alexander Laing - 1828 - 492 pages
...feel, For their chief's crimes, avenging steel. J see the dagger crest of Mar, I see the Moray's argent star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far. Down, down, cried Mar, your lances down ! Bear back both friend and foe ! Like reed before the tempest's... | |
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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,... 
