 Had I a sword of keener steel — That blue blade that the king's son bears, — but this Blunt thing — !" he snapt and flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away and left the field. Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless,...  Ingalls of Kansas: A Character Study - Page 131by William Elsey Connelley - 1909 - 232 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Effie Belle McFadden - 1925 - 656 pages
...broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. GETTYSBURG ADDRESS ABRAHAM LINCOLN Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter, Dwight Everett Watkins - 1925 - 296 pages
...broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And saw and snatched it ; and with battle-shout Lifted afresh, he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. Abou Ben Adhem Leigh Hunt For biographical note concerning the author, see "The Grasshopper and the... | |
 | 1926 - 328 pages
...flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away and left the field. Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword,...enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. Those lines are by ER Sill, who also wrote those exquisite lines "The Fool's Prayer" with which you... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1926 - 412 pages
...broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. Edward Rowland Sill COLUMBUS * Behind him lay the grey Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules; Before... | |
 | Emma Miller Bolenius - 1927 - 712 pages
...broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. Memorize the poem. THE FAMOUS FREE-LANCE NORA PERRY The pages of history teem with thrilling adventure.... | |
 | John Harrie Beveridge, Belle M. Ryan, William Dodge Lewis - 1926 - 474 pages
...broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. —Edward Rowland Sitt Reprinted by special permission of the publishers, Houghton Mifflin Company.... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1926 - 630 pages
...broken sword. Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand. And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down. And saved a great cause that heroic day. Grade VIII America for Me HENRY VAN DYKE 'Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down Among... | |
 | Joseph Villiers Denney, Eleanor Louise Skinner, Ada Maria Skinner - 1926 - 456 pages
...broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. EDWARD ROWLAND SILL In the first few lines of this poem, what do you learn about the prince's banner... | |
 | 1926 - 780 pages
...broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sands And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. — Edward Rowland Sill THE DAFFODILS I wander'd lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and... | |
 | American Association of School Administrators - 1926 - 946 pages
...broken sword. Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battleshout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. Grade VIII America for Me HENRY VAN DYKE 'Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down Among... | |
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