 It seemed as if their mother Earth Had swallowed up her warlike birth. The wind's last breath had tossed in air, Pennon, and plaid, and plumage fair, — The next but swept a lone hill-side, Where heath and fern were waving wide ; The sun's last glance...  Lady of the Lake - Page 151by Walter Scott - 1885 - 219 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...seem'd as if their mother Earth Had swallow'd up her warlike birth. The wind's last breath had toss'd in air Pennon, and plaid, and plumage fair, — The next but swept a lone hill-side, "WTiere heath and fern were waving wide ; The sun's last glance was glinted back From spear and glaive,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 170 pages
...broom or bracken, heath or wood ; Sunk brand and spear and bended bo\v, In osiers pale and copses low ; It seemed as if their mother Earth Had swallowed up...plaid, and plumage fair, — The next but swept a lone bill-side, Where heath and fern were waving wide ; The sun's last glance was glinted back, From lance... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...or bracken, heath or wood ; Sunk brand, and spear, and bended bow, In osiers pale and copses low : It seemed as if their mother Earth Had swallowed up...plaid, and plumage fair, — The next but swept a lone hill side, Where heath and fern were waving wide; The sun's last glance was glinted back, From lance... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...broom or bracken, heath or wood ; 6 Sunk brand and spear and bended bow In osiers pale and copses low ; It seemed as if their mother earth Had swallowed up...warlike birth. The wind's last breath had tossed in air 10 Pennon, and plaid, and plumage fair, — The next but swept a lone hill-side, Where heath and fern... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...had tossed in air 10 Pennon, and plaid, and plumage fair, — The next but swept a lone hill-side, Where heath and fern were waving wide ; The sun's last glance was glinted back From lance and glaive, from targe and jack, — 15 The next, all unreflected, shone On bracken green, and... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 pages
...bracken, heath or wood ; Sunk brand and spear and bended bow, In osiers pale and copses low ; It seem'd as if their mother Earth Had swallowed up her warlike birth. The wind's last breath had toss'd in air, Pennon, and plaid, and plumage fair, — The next but swept a lone hill-side, Where... | |
 | George Melly - 1851 - 352 pages
...re-established, and all but the crew and two or three of their friends dispersed, leaving the shore deserted — "It seemed as if their mother earth Had swallowed up her warlike birth." A light wind brought us next morning to o 2 Assouan, after a passage of twenty-seven days from Cairo... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...broom or bracken, heath or wood; Sank brand and spear, and bended bow, In osiers pale and copses low ; It seemed as if their mother Earth Had swallowed up...plumage fair™ The next but swept a lone hill-side, Where heath and fern were waving wide ; The sun's last glance was glinted back, From spear and glaive,... | |
 | 1853 - 536 pages
...bracken, heath or wood : Sunk brand and spear and bended bow, In osiers pale and copses low. It teemed at if their mother earth Had swallowed up her warlike...air Pennon and plaid, and plumage fair ; The next bat swept a lone hill side Where heath and fern were waving wide. The snn's last glance was glinted... | |
 | 1853 - 530 pages
...bow, In osiers pale and copses low. /( seemed as if their mother earth Had swallowed up her warlihe birth. The wind's last breath had tossed in air Pennon...plaid, and plumage fair ; The next but swept a lone hill side Where heath and fern were waving wide. The sun's last glance was glinted back From spear... | |
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