 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
 | Wolley Simpson - 1843 - 368 pages
...the same hour of day as that in which the great Unknown led Marmion to " Norham's Castled Steep. '' " The battled Towers, the Donjon Keep, The loop-hole...where captives weep, The flanking walls, that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone." And as the massive outlines of this prince of ruins gradually reveal... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...strikingly picturesque than the two opening stanzas of this romance : — Day set on Norham's castled steep, f bad ones, во there are certain rules of civility,...And indeed there seems to me to be less differenc sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seemed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...strikingly picturesque than the two opening stanzas of this romance : — Day set on Norham's castled steep, And T 1. sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seemed... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...And clasps the maid he singled from the world. ROGERS. SUNSET. DAY set on Norham's l castle 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... | |
 | Andrew Archibald Paton - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1845 - 422 pages
...of mail, or padded velvet, and end with bag-wigs and shoebuckles. But here, at Manasia, " The hattle towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates, where captives weep. The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone ;" and we were quietly carried back to the year of our Lord l400 ; for... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1846 - 380 pages
...as a specimen, the opening description in Marmion. 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,... | |
 | Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1846 - 182 pages
...as a specimen, the opening description in Marmion. 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,... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...come to Norham Castle, so magnificently described in Marmion. '' Day set on Norham's castle steep, And Tweed's fair river broad and deep, And Cheviot's...keep, The loop-hole grates where captives weep, The flunking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone." Nine miles further on, we arrive at "... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1847 - 862 pages
...of the romance, in which the feudal fortress is thus painted : " Day set on Norham'a castle steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's...keep, The loop-hole grates, where captives weep, The Hanking walls that round it sweep, Scented forms of giant height; Their armour, aa it caught the ravs,... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 446 pages
...fortress is thus painted : " Day set on Durham's castle steep, Aud Tweed's fair river, brood iinrl deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone ; The battled towers,...keep, The loop-hole grates, where captives weep, The Hanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving... | |
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