The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq, Volume 4James Eastburn & Company, 1818 |
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... battle - ax , a hunting spear , And broad - swords , bows , and arrows store ; With the tusked trophies of the boar . Here grins the wolf as when he died , And there the wild - cat's brindled hide The frontlet of the elk adorns , Or ...
... battle - ax , a hunting spear , And broad - swords , bows , and arrows store ; With the tusked trophies of the boar . Here grins the wolf as when he died , And there the wild - cat's brindled hide The frontlet of the elk adorns , Or ...
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... battle field . " She sighed , then smiled and took the word ; " You see the guardian champion's sword : As light it trembles in his hand , As in my grasp a hazel wand ; My sire's tall form might grace the part Of Ferragus , or Ascabart ...
... battle field . " She sighed , then smiled and took the word ; " You see the guardian champion's sword : As light it trembles in his hand , As in my grasp a hazel wand ; My sire's tall form might grace the part Of Ferragus , or Ascabart ...
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... battle - brand , of yore For Tyne - man forged by fairy lore , What time he leagued , no longer foes , His Border spears with Hotspur's bows , Did , self - unscabbarded , fore - show , The footstep of a secret foe . If courtly spy , and ...
... battle - brand , of yore For Tyne - man forged by fairy lore , What time he leagued , no longer foes , His Border spears with Hotspur's bows , Did , self - unscabbarded , fore - show , The footstep of a secret foe . If courtly spy , and ...
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... battle rose , With mingled outcry , shrieks , and blows ; And mimic din of stroke and ward , As broadsword upon target jarred ; And groaning pause , e'er yet again , Condensed , the battle yelled amain ; The rapid charge , the rallying ...
... battle rose , With mingled outcry , shrieks , and blows ; And mimic din of stroke and ward , As broadsword upon target jarred ; And groaning pause , e'er yet again , Condensed , the battle yelled amain ; The rapid charge , the rallying ...
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... battle slain , And bleached by drifting wind and rain . It might have tamed a warrior's heart , To view such mockery of his art : The knot - grass fettered there the hand , Which once could burst an iron band ; Beneath the broad and ...
... battle slain , And bleached by drifting wind and rain . It might have tamed a warrior's heart , To view such mockery of his art : The knot - grass fettered there the hand , Which once could burst an iron band ; Beneath the broad and ...
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agen arms band battle Ben-venue blade blood bold brand brave breast broadsword brow called CANTO chase chief Chieftain clan Clan-Alpine's copse couch Dæmon dangerous dark deep deer Douglas dread drew Duergar e'er Earl of Angus Ellen fair fairy fear Fiery Cross fire Fitz-James Gael gallant glance glen grace Græme gray guard hand harp head hear heard heart heath Highland hill honoured hounds Hubert's hounds hunting isle James John Gunn King LADY lake land Loch-Katrine Lord loud lowland Macgregor maid maiden Malcolm minstrel morning mountain ne'er night noble Note numbers o'er pass Perthshire pibroch plaid pride race rock Roderick Dhu Rowland Yorke Saint Modan Saxon Scotland Scottish Scottish Highlander side sire smile snood song spear speed stag stagg steed Stirling stood strain stranger sword tear thee thine thou tide tower Twas vision warrior wave wild yonder
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Page 151 - Now, yield thee, or by Him who made " The world, thy heart's blood dyes my blade!" " Thy threats, thy mercy, I defy! " Let recreant yield who fears to die.
Page 16 - And turned him from the opposing rock ; Then, dashing down a darksome glen, Soon lost to hound and hunter's ken, In the deep Trosach's wildest nook His solitary refuge took.
Page 12 - The stag at eve had drunk his fill, Where danced the moon on Monan's rill, And deep his midnight lair had made In lone Glenartney's hazel shade...
Page 151 - That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given. Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood and still ; Like the loose crags, whose threatening mass Lay 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 the mountain-side they hung.
Page 35 - Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done, While our slumbrous spells assail ye, Dream not with the rising sun, Bugles here shall sound reveille. Sleep ! the deer is in his den ; Sleep! thy hounds are by thee lying; Sleep ! nor dream in yonder glen, How thy gallant steed lay dying. Huntsman, rest ! thy chase is done, Think not of the rising sun, For at dawning to assail ye, Here no bugles sound reveille.
Page 178 - At once there rose so wild a yell Within that dark and narrow dell, As all the fiends from heaven that fell Had pealed the banner-cry of hell ! Forth from the pass in tumult driven, Like chaff before the wind of heaven, The archery appear: For life ! for life ! their...
Page 176 - The Minstrel came once more to view The eastern ridge of Benvenue, For, ere he parted, he would say Farewell to lovely Loch Achray — , Where shall he find, in foreign land, So lone a lake, so sweet a strand...
Page 177 - 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...
Page 177 - 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, Or do they flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring beams...
Page 21 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.