 | Henry William Herbert - Great Britain - 1856 - 460 pages
...good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Linked in the...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well. MARMXON. ONCE more upon the charger's back ! once more among the trumpets ! A year had passed since... | |
 | 1856 - 796 pages
...Scottish circle deep That fought around their king." "No thought was there of dastard flight, Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble,...fearlessly and well; Till utter darkness closed her wine O'er their thin host and wounded king.' " Tweed's echoes heard the ceaseless plash, To gam the... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - Great Britain - 1896 - 466 pages
...good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom foutrht like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well. ONCE more upon the charger's back !... | |
 | James Clement Moffat - Aesthetics - 1856 - 300 pages
...the picture of the ruined but still resisting and impenetrable fragment of the Scottish army, as " Utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king ;" And from which the English troops withdrew, » " As mountain waves from wasted lands, Sweep back... | |
 | Walter Scott - Poetry, English - 1857 - 420 pages
...Their dark impenetrable wood, Eacli stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the...skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shatter'd bands ; And from the charge they drew, As mountain-waves, from wasted lands, Sweep back to... | |
 | Walter Scott - Poetry, English - 1857 - 428 pages
...blue. Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the...skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shatter'd bands ; And from the charge they drew, As mountain-waves, from wasted lands, Sweep back to... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...Their dark impenetrable wood, 30 Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Linked in the...darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded lung. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shattered bands; And from the charge... | |
 | David Hunter Strother - Randolph County (W. Va.) - 1857 - 312 pages
...Flodden Field, were uppermost in his mind : "No thought was there of dastard flight, Linked in that serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well." They are brave verses, although they seem to have no especial applicability to the subject. In the... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...Their dark impenetrable wood ; Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the...fought like noble, squire like knight,— As fearlessly as well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king; Then skilful Surrey's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 pages
...151 "be instant that he felL No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phiilaiix tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight,...and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er thsir tlu'n host and wounded King Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shatter'd... | |
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Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the... 
