The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A PoemLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-row, and A. Constable and Company Edinburgh, 1805 - Minstrels - 319 pages |
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... field . IX . An aged knight , to danger steeled , With many a moss - trooper , came on ; And azure in a golden field , The stars and crescent graced his shield , Without the bend of Murdieston . Wide lay his lands round Oakwood tower ...
... field . IX . An aged knight , to danger steeled , With many a moss - trooper , came on ; And azure in a golden field , The stars and crescent graced his shield , Without the bend of Murdieston . Wide lay his lands round Oakwood tower ...
Page 117
... my words the words of fear ; For who in field or foray slack Saw the blanche lion e'er fall back ? But thus to risque our Border flower In strife against a kingdom's power , Ten thousand Scots ' gainst thousands three , Certes , 117.
... my words the words of fear ; For who in field or foray slack Saw the blanche lion e'er fall back ? But thus to risque our Border flower In strife against a kingdom's power , Ten thousand Scots ' gainst thousands three , Certes , 117.
Page 128
... should be forgot , From rose and hawthorn shakes the tear Upon the gentle minstrel's bier ; The phantom knight , his glory fled , Mourns o'er the field he heaped with dead ; Mounts the wild blast that sweeps amain , And shrieks 128.
... should be forgot , From rose and hawthorn shakes the tear Upon the gentle minstrel's bier ; The phantom knight , his glory fled , Mourns o'er the field he heaped with dead ; Mounts the wild blast that sweeps amain , And shrieks 128.
Page 142
... field , the young Buccleuch , An English knight led forth to view ; Scarce rued the boy his present plight , So much he longed to see the fight . Within the lists , in knightly pride , High Home and haughty Dacre ride ; Their leading ...
... field , the young Buccleuch , An English knight led forth to view ; Scarce rued the boy his present plight , So much he longed to see the fight . Within the lists , in knightly pride , High Home and haughty Dacre ride ; Their leading ...
Page 143
... field ; Then heralds hoarse did loud proclaim , In king , and queen , and wardens ' name , That none , while lasts the strife , Should dare , by look , or sign , or word , Aid to a champion to afford , On peril of his life . Then not a ...
... field ; Then heralds hoarse did loud proclaim , In king , and queen , and wardens ' name , That none , while lasts the strife , Should dare , by look , or sign , or word , Aid to a champion to afford , On peril of his life . Then not a ...
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ancient arms band bard Baron beneath betwixt blaze blood blood-hound Border bower Branksome Branksome Hall Branksome's brave broken lance Buccleuch called CANTO castle Cessford chapel chief clan courser cross Cumberland dæmons Dame dead devyll Douglas dread Duke Earl Earl of Angus Eildon hills English Ettricke Forest fair on Carlisle fight hall hand harp Hawick heard highnes horse Howard James Jedburgh king Kirkwall knight Ladye laird lance lands LAST MINSTREL Liddesdale Lord Dacre Margaret Melrose Michael MINSTREL moss-trooper Musgrave Naworth Castle ne'er never noble o'er ride rode Roslin round rung sayd Scot Scotland Scottish Scottish Border shew shulde Sir William slain song spear St Clair steed stone stood sun shines fair sword Teviot's Teviotdale thee theyme theyre Thomas Musgrave thou Tinlinn tomb tower Twas tyme Virgilius Walter Scott warden warrior ween wild William of Deloraine wound XXIII
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Page 3 - Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry; For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead; And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest.
Page 125 - CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of bahn distil; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.
Page 182 - Blazed battlement and pinnet high, Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair — So still they blaze, when fate is nigh The lordly line of high Saint Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle...
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Page 160 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill.