 DAY set on Norham's castled steep. And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep. And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loop-hole grates where captives weep. The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 111808Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1894 - 208 pages
...knightly tale of Albion's elder day. CANTO FIRST. THE CASTI.E. DAY set on Norham's castled steep,6 And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep,6 The loophole grates, where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow... | |
 | Alexander Taylor Innes - Biography & Autobiography - 1896 - 168 pages
...the first morning on Neidpath Fell, to the fourth evening when ' Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep ' — are all still there, though the inmates are no longer captives. Norham is, indeed, best... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...NORHAM CASTLE Af&rmx*. DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and <fctj\ And Cheviot's mountains lone ; The battled towers, the donjon keep. The loop-hole grates where cajtoe weep, The flanking walls that ronnd It sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...wilt thou find their like agen ?" NIGHT AT NORHAM CASTLE. Marmim. DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...towers, the donjon keep, The loop-hole grates where captive ween. The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets... | |
 | Henry Heathcote Statham - Architecture - 1898 - 166 pages
...sunset glow is flashed on the reader in an effective manner : — " Day set on Norham's castled steep ; The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates where captives weep In yellow lustre shone." To the modern reader this, as far as it goes, is a poetic picture ; to the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1899 - 370 pages
...lay, A knightly tale of Albion's elder day. CANTO FIEST Castle. DAT set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seem'd... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1899 - 1076 pages
...expressions of fact, but they are not poetry. On the other hand, take the opening lines of ' Marmion : ' The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone : The warriors on the turrets high. Moving athwart the evening sky, Seem'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1899 - 364 pages
...The Castle DAT set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot 's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates, where captives weep, 5 The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1900 - 604 pages
...lay, A knightly tale of Albion's elder day. CANTO FIRST THE CASTLE DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seemed... | |
 | Walter Scott - English Literature - 1900 - 618 pages
...tale of Albion's elder day. CANTO FIRST THE CASTLE DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed'sTair river, broad and deep, ' And Cheviot's mountains lone;...where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seemed... | |
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