The Lays of Ancient RomeD.C. Heath & Company, 1907 - 115 páginas |
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Æbutius Alba Longa Alban amain Ancient Rome Appius Claudius Armada armour array Aulus ballads banner BATTLE OF NASEBY beneath Black Auster blood brave days burghers Caius Capitoline Hill Catholic Claudian Clusium Consul crest crown curule chair England Etruria false Sextus famous fast Fathers fell fierce fight foam foes Forum fought France gallant Gate gold gown Greece Greek hand hath head helmet Henry of Navarre Herminius Hill Huguenots Hurrah Ivry King Knights Lake Regillus land Lars Porsena Latian name Latin Latium Lays of Ancient lictors Lord lordly loud Macaulay Macaulay's maid Mamilius Mayenne minstrel Note o'er Old English word patricians picture pilum plebeians poem poetry proud Puritans purple ranks rode Roman Rome's Scribner shield slain smote song spake spear stanza steed stood sword Tarentum Tarquin thee thou thrice throng Tiber Titus to-day towers town Tribunes Tusculum Twin Brethren Umbria unto Valerius Volscian
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Página 86 - Charge for the golden lilies, — upon them with the lance. A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre. Now, God be praised, the day is ours. Mayenne hath turned his rein.
Página 84 - Now let there be the merry sound of music and of dance, Through thy corn-fields green, and sunny vines, oh pleasant land of France ! And thou, Rochelle, our own Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Página 85 - He looked upon his people, and a tear was in his eye ; He looked upon the traitors, and his glance was stern and high. Right graciously he smiled on us, as rolled from wing to wing, Down all our line, a deafening shout, 'God save our Lord the King...
Página 21 - Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge this day ! ' So he spake, and speaking sheathed The good sword by his side, And with his harness on his back Plunged headlong in the tide.
Página 91 - Peak unfurled the flag o'er Darwin's rocky dales, Till like volcanoes flared to heaven the stormy hills of Wales. Till twelve fair counties saw the blaze on Malvern's lonely height, Till streamed in crimson on the wind the Wrekin's crest of light...
Página 89 - Look how the Lion of the sea lifts up his ancient crown, And underneath his deadly paw treads the gay lilies down.
Página 90 - The fisher left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering waves: The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves: O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew: He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu. Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out from Bristol town, And ere the day three hundred horse had met on Clifton down...
Página 89 - And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho ! strike the flag-staff deep, Sir Knight : ho ! scatter flowers, fair maids : Ho ! gunners, fire a loud salute : ho ! gallants, draw your blades : Thou sun, shine on her joyously : ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious semper eadem, the banner of our pride.
Página 84 - And Appenzel's stout infantry, and Egmont's Flemish spears. There rode the brood of false Lorraine, the curses of our land ! And dark Mayenne was in the midst, a truncheon in his hand ; And, as we looked on them, we thought of Seine's empurpled flood, And good Coligni's hoary hair all dabbled with his blood ; And we cried unto the living God, who rules the fate of war, To fight for his own holy name, and Henry of Navarre.
Página 91 - Lincoln sped the message on o'er the wide vale of Trent; Till Skiddaw saw the fire that burned on Gaunt's embattled pile, And the red glare on Skiddaw roused the burghers of Carlisle.