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... The Ballad Poetry of Ireland - Page 219edited by - 1861 - 253 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...anvil—all about the faces fiery grow— " Hurrah," they shout, " leap out—leap out;" bang, bang, the Hurrah ; the jetted lightnings are hissing high and...leathern mail rebounds the hail; the rattling cinders sledges go; strow The ground around; at every bound the sweltering fountains flow: And thick and loud... | |
| Charles Knight - Industrial arts - 1851 - 1070 pages
...all about the fiery faces glow— " Hurrah ! " they ehont, " leap ont — leap ont ; " bang, ban;;, the sledges go : Hurrah ! the jetted lightnings are...and low, A hailing fount of fire is struck at every crushing blow ; The leathern mail rebounds the hail ; the rattling cinders strow The ground around... | |
| 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 — '...leathern mail rebounds the hail ; the rattling cinders strew The ground around ; at every bound the sweltering fountains flow; And thick and loud the swinging... | |
| John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart - Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine - 1854 - 494 pages
...slow Sinks on the anvil—all about, the faces fiery grow— " Hurrah!" they shout, " leap out—leap out;" bang, bang, the sledges go; Hurrah! the jetted...mail rebounds the hail; the rattling cinders strow And thick and loud, the swinking crowd, at every stroke, pant " ho !" The ground around; at every bound... | |
| John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1855 - 686 pages
...like men before the foe ; As quivering through his fleece of flame, the sailing monster, slow Sinks on the anvil, — all about the faces fiery grow :..."leap out" — "leap out"; bang, bang, the sledges go! A hailing fount of fire is struck at every squashing blow." While Offly sternly cries — strike, strike,... | |
| David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...of flame, the sailing-monster slow Sinks on the anvil — all about the faces fiery grow. "Hurrah I" they shout, "leap out — leap out;" bang, bang the...leathern mail rebounds the hail, the rattling cinders strew The ground around: at every bound the sweltering fountains flow, And thick and loud the swinking... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...baud, like men before the foe. As, quivering thro' his fleece of flame, the sailing monster, slow Sinks on the anvil — all about the faces fiery grow. "...— leap out ;" bang, bang the sledges go: Hurrah ! tho jetted lightnings are hissing high and low — A hailing fount of fire is stnick at every squashing... | |
| Edward Hayes - Ballads, Irish - 1857 - 456 pages
...band, like men before the foe. As, quivering thro' his fleece of flame, the sailing monster, slow Sinks on the anvil — all about the faces fiery grow. "Hurrah!"...squashing blow, The leathern mail rebounds the hail, the'i-attk'ng cinders strow- :!' The ground around : at every bound the sweltering fountains -flow,... | |
| Amusing poetry - 1857 - 266 pages
...flame, the sailing monster slow' Sinks on the anvil — all about the faces fiery grow — " Hurrrah," they shout, " leap out — leap out :" bang, bang,...the sledges go ; Hurrah; the jetted lightnings are hissinghighandlow; A hailing fount of fire is struck at every squashing blow ; The leathern mail rebounds... | |
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