 A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.  North American Second Class Reader - Page 273by David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1853 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Tillotson - Battles - 1865 - 508 pages
...deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like...be praised, the day is ours ! Mayenne hath turned his rein ! • D'Aumale hath cried for quarter ; the Flemish count is slain. Their ranks are breaking... | |
 | France - 1865 - 504 pages
...deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while like...God be praised, the day is ours. Mayenne hath turned his rein. D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish count is slain. Their ranks are breaking like... | |
 | Herbert Fry - 1865 - 240 pages
...carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre. Now God be praised, the day is ours. Mayenne hath turned his rein ; D'Aumale hath cried for quarter; the Flemish...slain. Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before n Biicay galo ; The field is heaped with bleeding iteedi, and flags and cloven mail And then we thought... | |
 | Sutherland Menzies - Favorites, Royal - 1865 - 578 pages
...thousand knights were pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rush'd, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre." Thus, as that same victory — one of the most complete and glorious on record — raised the fame... | |
 | Mrs. Elizabeth Stone - Favorites, Royal - 1865 - 528 pages
...thousand knights were pressing close hehind the snow-white crest; And in they burst, and on they rush'd, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre." Thus, as that same victory — one of the most complete and glorious on record — raised the fame... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...lilies now, Upon them with the lance ! A thousand spurs are striking deep, Behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rushed, While, like...be praised, the day is ours ! Mayenne hath turned his rein; D'Aumale hath cried for quarter — The Flemish Count is slain. Their ranks are breaking... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 192 pages
...a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-whito crest ; — And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like...be praised, the day is ours ! Mayenne hath turned his rein — D'Aumale hath cried for quarter — the Flemish Count is slain. Their ranks are breaking... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snowwhite crest ; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like...God be praised, the day is ours! Mayenne hath turned his rein. — D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. — The Flemish count is slain. Their ranks are breaking... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 738 pages
...deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like...of Navarre. Now, God be praised, the day is ours. Mayenue hath turned his rein. D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish count is slain. Their ranks... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...thousand knights are pressing close behind the snowwhite crest; And in they burst, and on they rush'd, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage...be praised, the day is ours ! Mayenne hath turned his rein. D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish Count is slain. Their ranks are breaking like... | |
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