 The great brand Made lightnings in the splendour of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirl'd in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn, Seen where the moving isles of winter shock By night, with noises of the northern sea. So...  The Poets of the Nineteenth Century - Page 443edited by - 1881 - 674 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1898 - 248 pages
...twinkled with diamond sparks, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth work Of subtlest jewellery. So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur: But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, And caught him by the hilt, and brandish'd him, Three times and drew him under in... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...clutch'd the sword, And strongly wheel'd and threw it. The great brand Made lightnings in the splendour of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirl'd...shock By night, with noises of the northern sea. So flash'd and fell the brand Excalibur: But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite,... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...— seen where the moving isles of winter shock by night, with noises of the northern sea. So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur ; but, ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, and caught him by the hilt, and brandished him three times, and drew him under in... | |
 | 1855 - 338 pages
...clutch' d the sword, And strongly wheel'd and threw it. The great brand Made lightnings in the splendour of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirl'd...shock By night, with noises of the northern sea. So flash'd and fell the brand Excalibur. A series of .brilliant effects is hit off in those two words,... | |
 | 1856 - 416 pages
...clutch'd the sword, And strongly wheel'd and threw it. The great brand Made lightnings in the splendour of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirl'd...shock By night, with noises of the northern sea. So flash'd and fell the brand Excalibur. A series of brilliant effects is hit off in those two words,... | |
 | George Brimley - English literature - 1858 - 376 pages
...great brand Made lightnings in the splendour of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirl' d in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn...northern sea. So flash' d and fell the brand Excalibur. A series of brilliant effects is hit off in those two words, ' made lightnings.' ' Whirl'd in an arch,'... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...great brand Made lightnings in the splendor of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirled in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn,...shock By night, with noises of the northern sea. So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur : But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...great brand Made lightnings in the splendor of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirled in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn,...shock By night, with noises of the northern sea. So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur : But ere he dint the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...great brand iVlade lightnings in the splendor of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirled in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn,...shock By night, with noises of the northern sea. So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur : But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 516 pages
...great brand Made lightnings in the splendor" of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirled in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn,...shock By night, with noises of the northern sea. So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur : But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite,... | |
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