 Each warrior vanished where he stood, In broom 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 her warlike birth.  The poetical works of Walter Scott - Side 16af sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 sider
...Short space he stood — then waved his hand: Down sunk the disappearing band; Each warrior vanished where he stood, In broom or bracken, heath or wood;...brand and spear and bended bow, In osiers pale and cops« low; It seemed as if their mother earth Had swallowed up her warlike birth. The wind's last... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 sider
...Short space he stood — then waved his hand Down sunk the disappearing band ; Each warrior vanished where he stood, In broom or bracken, heath or wood...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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 sider
...Short space he stood — then waved his hand Down sunk the disappearing band ; Each warrior vanished where he stood, In broom or bracken, heath or wood...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 sider
...disappearing band ; Each warrior vanished where he stood, In 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 her warlike birth. The wind's last breath had tossed... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 sider
...Short space he stood — then waved his hand Down sunk the disappearing band ; Each warrior vanished where he stood, In broom or bracken, heath or wood...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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 sider
...stern joy which warriors feel In foeman worthy of their steel. Short space he stood — then wav'd his hand: Down sunk the disappearing band ! Each warrior vanish'd where he stood, 101 In broom or bracken, heath or wood ; Sunk brand and spear and bended bow. In osiers pale and copses... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 sider
...And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. Short space he stood — then waved his hand: Down sunk the disappearing band ;...copses low; It seem'd as if their mother Earth Had Kwnllow'd up her warlike birth. The wind's last breath had toss'd in air, Pennon, and plaid, and plumage... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 sider
...Short space he stood — then waved his hand : Down sunk the disappearing band ; Each warrior vanished where he stood, In broom or bracken, heath or wood...and bended bow, In osiers pale and copses low : It seemed as if their mother Earth Had swallowed up her warlike birth ; The wind's last breath had tossed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 170 sider
...Short space he stood — then waved his hand Down sunk the disappearing band ; Each warrior vanished where he stood, In 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 her warlike... | |
 | Edward Pett Thompson - 1848 - 402 sider
...were then dismissed to their tents, and again the ground was clear of all but the sentries : — " It seem'd as if their mother earth Had swallow'd up her warlike birth." I was forcibly struck with this scene ; and, divesting it of its moral character, felt how powerful... | |
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