 And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd, All tenantless, save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud, Banners on high, and battles pass'd...  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Page 871835Full view - About this book
 | John Burnett Pratt - Buchan (Scotland) - 1901 - 570 pages
...All tenantless save to the cranny ing wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud; Banners on high, and...the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow." ("Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," Canto iii., stanzas xlvii.)* *Brief descriptions of the parishes through... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1904 - 942 pages
...All tenantless, save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud ; Banners on high,...bleak battlements shall bear no future blow. Beneath those battlements, within those walls, Power dwelt amidst her passions ; in proud state Each robber... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 722 pages
...with the Cloud There was a day when they were young and proud ; Banners on high, and battles ' passed below ; But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredk-ss dust ere now,'1 And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow. XLvIII. Beneath these... | |
 | Joel Cook - Rhine River - 1904 - 636 pages
...All tenantless, save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud, Banners on high, and battles pass'd below; But thpy who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredless dust ere now, And the bleak... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 pages
...cloud. There was a day when they were young .and proud, Banners on high, and battles pass'd below; 420 But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those...And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow. XLVIII Beneath these battlements, within those walls, Power dwelt amidst her passions; in proud state... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 pages
...crowd, All tenantless, save to the crannying Or holding dark communion with the cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud, Banners on high, and battles pass'd below; 4ao But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredless dust ere now, And... | |
 | Geography - 1906 - 502 pages
...with the cloud. There wa-sa day when they were young and proud, Banner on high, and battles passed below! But they who fought are in a bloody shroud,...the bleak battlements .shall bear no future blow." We pass on, pausing at Braubnch to view the fine old Caatle of Marksburg — the sole survivor of the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1907 - 1376 pages
...with the Cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud; Banners on high, and battles passed below; But they who fought are in a bloody shroud,...And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow. XLvm. Beneath these battlements, within those walls, Power dwelt amidst her passion; in proud state... | |
 | Francis Miltoun - Automobile travel - 1907 - 492 pages
...with the cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud, Banners on high, and battles passed below: But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which wav'd are shredless dust ere now, And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow. " Beneath battlements,... | |
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