And there was mounting in hot haste ; the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed And swiftly forming in the ranks of war ; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar ; And near, the beat of the alarming... Time's Telescope - Page 1601824Full view - About this book
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...ranks of war ; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar ; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star ; While thronged...lips — " The foe ! they come ! they come !" And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they pass, PATHETIC AND... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...ranks of war ; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar : And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star ; While thronged...with white lips — " The foe ! they come ! they come !" Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...And near the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star ; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering with white lips — 'The foe! they come! they come ! '" The poet passed down the Rhine, of which he has afforded us the following enchanting picture :... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...And near the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star ; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering with white lips — ' The foe ! they come ! they come ! ' " The poet passed down the Rhine, of which he has afforded us the following enchanting picture... | |
| William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...And near, the beat of the alarming drum, Roused up the soldier ere the morning star ; While throng the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering with...white lips, " The foe ! — they come — they come." 4. Forth from the pass in tumult driven, Like chaff before the winds of heaven, The archery appear... | |
| M. H. Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 494 pages
...London or of England, but in his mother's people, and the most stirring stanza of his Waterloo is this: And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering' rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hilb Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes;— How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills,... | |
| James Chapman - Elocution - 378 pages
...deep thunder peal on peal afar ; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier o1er the morning star ; While thronged the citizens with...with white lips—" the foe ! they come, they come !" Aud wild, and high, " the Cameron*' Gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills... | |
| Mark Bailey - Elocution - 1880 - 80 pages
...endangered ! " 2. " Oh ! 'twas a fearsome sight ! Ah me ! A deed to shudder at, — not to see." 3. " While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering with white lips, 'The foe! they come, they come ! ' " 4. " He springs from his hammock, he flies to the deck, — Amazement confronts him with images... | |
| American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged...with white lips @ "The foe! they come! they come!" 啊@ 立刻到處是紛紛亂亂, 涕淚縱橫, 難過到直抖, 直頓動, 臉龐都發白,... | |
| George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...And near, the beat of the alarming drum Boused up the soldier ere the morning star ; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips—" The foe ! they come ! they come ! ' XXVL And wild and high the "Cameron's gathering" rose! The war-note of Loohiel, which Albyn's hills... | |
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