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sir Walter Scott (bart.) MARMION . CANTO FIRST . The Castle . I. DAY set on Norham's Castled steep , And Tweed's fair river , broad and deep , And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers , the Donjon Keep , The loop - hole grates ...
sir Walter Scott (bart.) MARMION . CANTO FIRST . The Castle . I. DAY set on Norham's Castled steep , And Tweed's fair river , broad and deep , And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers , the Donjon Keep , The loop - hole grates ...
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... Castle - yard ; Minstrels and trumpeters were there , The gunner held his linstock vare , For welcome - shot prepared : Enter'd the train , and such a clang , As then through all his turrets rang , Old Norham never heard . X. The guards ...
... Castle - yard ; Minstrels and trumpeters were there , The gunner held his linstock vare , For welcome - shot prepared : Enter'd the train , and such a clang , As then through all his turrets rang , Old Norham never heard . X. The guards ...
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... Norham is grim , and grated close , " Hemm'd in by battlement and fosse , " And many a darksome tower ; " And better loves my lady bright " To sit in liberty and light , " In fair Queen Margaret's bower . " We hold our greyhound in our ...
... Norham is grim , and grated close , " Hemm'd in by battlement and fosse , " And many a darksome tower ; " And better loves my lady bright " To sit in liberty and light , " In fair Queen Margaret's bower . " We hold our greyhound in our ...
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... Norham is grim , and grated close , " Hemm'd in by battlement and fosse , " And many a darksome tower ; " And better loves my lady bright " To sit in liberty and light , " In fair Queen Margaret's bower . " We hold our greyhound in our ...
... Norham is grim , and grated close , " Hemm'd in by battlement and fosse , " And many a darksome tower ; " And better loves my lady bright " To sit in liberty and light , " In fair Queen Margaret's bower . " We hold our greyhound in our ...
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... castle , town , and tower , " In which the wine and ale is good , " " Twixt Newcastle and Holy - Rood . " But that good man , as ill befalls , " Hath seldom left our castle walls , " Since on the vigil of St Bede , " In evil hour he ...
... castle , town , and tower , " In which the wine and ale is good , " " Twixt Newcastle and Holy - Rood . " But that good man , as ill befalls , " Hath seldom left our castle walls , " Since on the vigil of St Bede , " In evil hour he ...
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Abbess ancient Angus armour arms band banner Baron battle beneath bold brand castle chapel Christmas Clare dame dark death deep Douglas Dukes of Normandy e'er Earl Earl of Angus Earl of Mar Edinburgh English fair falcon fear fell fight Fitz-Eustace Flodden foes fought Gawaine gentle grace grave grim Guenever hail'd hall hand hath head heard heart heaven holy Holy Island horse host Introduction to Canto James IV King James King's knight Lady lance land light Lindesay Lindisfarn Lord Marmion loud maid mark'd merry Monarch monks mountain ne'er never noble Norham Norham Castle Note o'er Palmer pass'd Perchance plain Queene Guenever rest round royal rude scarce Scotland Scottish seem'd shield Sir David Sir Launcelot spear spoke squire St Cuthbert steed stood Surrey sword tale Tamworth Tantallon tell thee thou thought tide tower Twas Tweed Whitby Whitby's wild Wilton
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Page 195 - With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town...
Page 228 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, " Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 322 - Dragg'd from among the horses' feet, With dinted shield, and helmet beat, The falcon-crest and plumage gone, Can that be haughty Marmion ! .... Young Blount his...
Page 114 - It was a barren scene and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled, But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade The sun in all its round surveyed...
Page 229 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan ; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran : There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see. So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?
Page 324 - O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Page 226 - Oh ! young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, He rode all unarmed and he rode all alone. So faithful in love and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 330 - Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep, To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their King. But yet, though thick the shafts...
Page 272 - All hailed, with uncontrolled delight, And general voice, the happy night, That to the cottage, as the crown, Brought tidings of salvation down. The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide ; The huge hall-table's oaken face...
Page 129 - Where shall the traitor rest, He, the deceiver, Who could win maiden's breast, Ruin, and leave her ? In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying ; Eleu loro There shall he be lying.