 | John Scott Clark - English language - 1886 - 406 pages
...dactylic ; it is not until the fourth verse is reached that the prevalent foot is seen to be dactylic: " Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails...Nor now to prove our chance Longer will | tarry." And the same is true of Longfellow's stanza, And of the first verse in Cowper's " Poplars:" " The pop... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 452 pages
...one of the Battle of Agincourt, by Michael Drayton, beginning, — Fair stood the wind for France, As we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main, At ( '.-i ii v, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry. All this I readily... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 458 pages
...one of the Battle of Agincourt, by Michael Drayton, beginning, — Fair stood the wind for France, As we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; Bnt putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry.... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - American literature - 1888 - 712 pages
...free ; Glory's temple is the tomb , Death is immortality. JAMES MONTGOMERY. THE BALLAD OF AGINCOURT. stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance,...chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main, At Kause, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry. And taking many a fort, Furnished... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1888 - 388 pages
...gets a deserved emphasis. Drayton has a well-rhymed opening stanza in one of his Agincourt Odes:— Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails...Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry, It is a stroke of art to open such an ode on the rhyme of ' France'. As might be expected in such a... | |
 | William James Rolfe - Great Britain - 1888 - 204 pages
...BALLAD OF AGINCOURT. BY MICHAEL DRAYTON. FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance,1 Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But...mouth of Seine, With all his martial train Landed KLing Harry. And, taking many a fort, Furnished in warlike sort, Marcheth tow'rds Agincourt In harmv... | |
 | Royal Society of New Zealand - Science - 1910 - 892 pages
...bends o'er thy resting s|><it. The metre has become triple. Again, take Drayton's " Battle of Agin(18.) Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails...chance Longer will tarry, But putting to the main At Kaux the mouth of .Seine. With all his martial train In the first line the words naturally accented... | |
 | Poetry - 460 pages
...reading shall inflame Men to seek fame, And much commend, To after times thy wit. THE BALLAD OF AGINCOURT Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails...chance, Longer will tarry; But putting to the main At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry. And taking many a fort, Furnished... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...thine oblivious hours! (1. 12-14) ACP; BrPo; MoBrPo; OBMV; Son MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631) Agincourt 1 84 Come, let's away to prison. We two alone will...like birds i' the cage. When thou dost ask me bles (1. 1—4) 2 Upon Saint Crispin's dayFought was this noble fray, Which fame did not delay To England... | |
 | W. R. Owens, Lizbeth Goodman - Canon (Literature). - 1996 - 356 pages
...early in the next century in the form of a ballad written by Michael Drayton and published in 1605: Fair stood the wind for France When we our sails advance. Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ... Well it thine age became, O noble Erpingham. Which didst the signal aim To our hid forces! When... | |
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FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry. 
