 | Matthew Forster Conolly - 1866 - 526 psl.
...The Rtubbom spearmen still made good Their dark, impenetrable wood, Karh stopping where hi« kindred stood The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight. Linked in the Denied phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble — squire like knight, Aa fearlessly and well, Till... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 538 psl.
...stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell. Ko thought was there of dastard flight; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight. Groom fought like noble,...fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wins O'er their thin host and wounded king." — Marmion, canto vi. Adjoining Coldstream is Lees (Sir... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 546 psl.
...ghastly bow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood The instant...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight. As fearlessly and... | |
 | Ebenezer Forsyth - 1867 - 148 psl.
...blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark, impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 336 psl.
...blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, 30 Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, 35 As fearlessly... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 psl.
...Though charging knights like whirlwinds go Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring, Each stepping where his comrade stood. The instant...darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded kins. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strike his shattered bands; And from the charge... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 psl.
...ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
 | 1868 - 736 psl.
...battalion broken. As Sir Walter Scott says of Flodden — " No thought was there of dastard flight, Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell." If the leading files, men and horses,... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1868 - 456 psl.
...down the brave men, slaughtering on all sides, yet still unable to break through to the standard. " Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King." Man by man the noble Saxons were hewn down as the Normans cut their way through them, no more able... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1869 - 244 psl.
...good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. 15 No thought was there of dastard flight; Linked in...fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing 20 O'er their thin host and wounded King. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife... | |
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To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their King. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good... 
