 | Sir James Edward Alexander - 1840 - 404 ページ
...assegais, recalling forcibly to mind the effect of the shrill whistle of Roderick Dhu. " Instant from copse and heath arose, Bonnets and spears and bended...lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean- host had given." The Amakosa collected silently on... | |
 | James Browne - 1843 - 546 ページ
...was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlieti, From crag to crag the signal flew; Instant, through copse and heath arose Bonnets and...Sprung up at once the lurking foe ; From shingles grey their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow wand, Are... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 ページ
...he was answer'd from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and...bows ; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at onee the lurking foe ; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken-bush sends forth the dart,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 ページ
...he was answer'd from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew; Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and...lurking foe ; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken-bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow-wand Are bristling into axe and brand,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 ページ
...he was answer'd from the hill ! Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and...Sprung up at once the lurking foe ; From shingles grey their lances start, The bracken-bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow-wand Are... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 ページ
...he was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets, and...and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below, Sprang up at once the lurking foe ; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 ページ
...he was answer'd from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew; Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and...lurking foe ; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken-bush sends forth the dart. The rushes and the willow-wand Are bristling into axe and brand,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 312 ページ
...below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe ; From shingles gray their lances start, The bracken-bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow-wand...tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior arm'd ifor strife. That whistle garrison'd the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning... | |
 | Scottish tourist - 1845 - 522 ページ
...animated description which follows is thought superior to any thing Sir Walter Scott ever wrote. '' Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and...left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe ; * The Kelpie is a north-country demon, seldom appearing south of Aberdeen ; and the accident which... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 ページ
...he was answer'd from the hill ! Wild as the scream of the curlew. From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and...Sprung up at once the lurking foe ; From shingles grey iheir lances start. The bracken-bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow-wand Are... | |
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Have then thy wish!' — He whistled shrill, And he was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows : On right, on left, above,... 
