 The high sun sees not, on the earth, such fiery fearful show, The roof-ribs swarth, the candent hearth, the ruddy lurid row Of smiths that stand, an ardent band, like men before the foe, As, quivering through his fleece of flame, the sailing monster,...  Dear Old England; a Description of Our Fatherland - Page 346by Jane Anne Winscom - 1861 - 436 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1832 - 1102 pages
...the ruddy lurid row Of smiths, that stand, an ardent band, 1 ike men before the foe ; As, quivering through his fleece of flame, the sailing monster,...lightnings are hissing high and low; A hailing fount of fire is struck at every squashing blow; The leathern mail rebounds the hail; the rattling cinders strow... | |
 | Scotland - 1832 - 1042 pages
...the ruddy lurid row Of smiths, that stand, an ardent band, 1 ike men before the foe ; As, quivering through his fleece of flame, the sailing monster,...lightnings are hissing high and low; A hailing fount of fire is struck at every squashing blow ; The leathern mail rebounds the hail ; the rattling cinders... | |
 | English periodicals - 1832 - 526 pages
...grow— * Hurrah !* they shout — * leap out— leap out ;*— hane, hang, the sledges fo ; Hurrah I the jetted lightnings are hissing high and low ; A hailing fount of fir-- Is struck at ever* tquashinu blow ; The leathern mail rebounds the hail : the rattling cinders... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...hearth, the ruddy lurid row Of smiths, that stand, an ardent band, like men before the foe; As, quivering through his fleece of flame, the sailing monster,...lightnings are hissing high and low; A hailing fount of fire is struck at every squashing blow ; The leathern mail rebounds the hail; the rattling cinders... | |
 | sir Charles Gavan Duffy - Ballads, Irish - 1845 - 262 pages
...slow Sinks on the anvil—all about the faces fiery grow. " Hurrah 1" they shout, "leap out—leap out;" bang, bang the sledges go: Hurrah ! the jetted...lightnings are hissing high and low— A hailing fount of fire is struck at every squashing blow, The leathern mail rebounds the hail, the rattling cinders strow... | |
 | 1847 - 334 pages
...ruddy lurid row Of smiths, that stand, an ardent band, like men before the foe ; As, quivering thlough his fleece of flame, the sailing monster, slow Sinks...anvil — all about the faces fiery grow — " Hurrah 1" they shout, " leap out — leap out;" bnng, bang, the sledges go; Huirah I the jetted lightnings... | |
 | Charles Knight - Industrial arts - 1851 - 1070 pages
...the ruddy lurid row Of smiths, that stand, an ardent band, like men before the foe ; As, quivering through his fleece of flame, the sailing monster, slow Sinks on the anvil — all about the fiery faces glow— " Hurrah ! " they ehont, " leap ont — leap ont ; " bang, ban;;, the sledges go... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Industries - 1852 - 236 pages
...men before the foe ; As, quivering through his fleece of flame, the sailing monster slow Sinks oil the anvil — all about the faces fiery grow — '...lightnings are hissing high and low ; A hailing fount of fire is struck at every squashing blow ; The leathern mail rebounds the hail ; the rattling cinders... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...the ruddy luriil row Of smiths, that stand, an ardent band, like men before the foe ; As, quivering through his fleece of flame, the sailing monster,...lightnings are hissing high and low ; A hailing fount of fire is struck at every squashing blow ; The leathern mail rebounds the hail ; the rattling cinders... | |
 | John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, James Hogg - 1854 - 508 pages
...the ruddy lurid row Of smiths, that stand, an ardent band, like men before the foe ; As, quivering through his fleece of flame, the sailing monster,...lightnings are hissing high and low; A hailing fount of fire is struck at every squashing blow ; The leathern mail rebounds the hail ; the rattling cinders... | |
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