 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...opening roar ! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sat Brunswick's fated chieftain. He did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic car ; And when they smiled because he deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 pages
...roar ! XX Ш. Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ! he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 362 pages
...Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sato Bruuswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound tli« first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear ; .And when they smiled because he deom'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...op'ning roar ! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sat Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone, with death's prophetic car ; THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. 109 And when they smil'd because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...roar! xxm. Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...opening roar ! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pages
...opening roar! Within a window' d niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear : And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...opening roar ! Within a window' d niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...opening roar! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sat Brunswick's fated chieftain: he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well, Which... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...opening roar ! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain ; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear ; And when they smiled because he deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which... | |
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But hark that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before ! Arm! arm! it is — it is the cannon's opening roar! 
