 | English poetry - 1844 - 70 pages
...heavy shower, On shields and helmets light. They closed full fast on everye side, Noe slacknes there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. Alack ! it was a griefe to see, How each one chose his spere, And how the blood out of their brests... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...heavy shower, On shields and helmets light.3 They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. 1 Bent— hillside, declivity, field of battle. 8 Ware — wary, cautious. 3 The four preceding stanzas... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1846 - 430 pages
...mickle might Their speres to shivers went. They clos'd full fast on every side, Noe slacknes there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. O Christ ! it was a griefe to see, And likewise for to heare, The cries of men lying in their gore, And scattered here... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...engaged in close contest with sword and axe : — The battle closed on every side, No slackness there was found, And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. O, but it was a grief to see, And likewise for to hear, The cries of men lying in their gore, And scatter'd... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...heavy shower, On shields and helmets light. They closed full fast on everye side, Noe slacknes there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. Alack! it was a griefe to see, How each one chose his spere, And how the blood out of their brests... | |
 | Edward Hugessen Knatchbull- Hugessen (1st baron Brabourne.) - 1850 - 66 pages
...No slackness was there found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. 30. Oh Lord ! it was a grief to see, And likewise for to hear, The cries of men lying in their gore, And scattered here and there. 31. At last these two stout Earls did... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...side, No slackness there was found; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. O dear! it was a grief to see, And likewise for to hear, The cries of men lying in their gore, And scatter'd here and there. This fight did last from break of day... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. ****** They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. 0 dear! it was a grief to see, And likewise for to hear, The cries of men lying in their gore, And... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...heavy shower, On shields and helmets light. They closed full fast on everye side, Noe slacknes there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. Alack ! it was a griefe to see How each one chose his spere, And how the blood out of their brests... | |
 | Joseph S. Moore - Ballads, English - 1853 - 900 pages
...bright : And now sharp blows, a heavy shower, They closed full fast on everye side, Noe slacknes there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. 0 Christ ! it was a griefe to see, And likewise for to heare, The cries of men lying in their gore,... | |
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They clos'd full fast on every side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. 
