 | George Saintsbury - 1895 - 446 sidor
...the intoxication of the whole piece is almost unmatched. The blood stirs all through as you read : With Spanish yew so strong Arrows a cloth-yard long...And like true English hearts Stuck close together. I always privately wish that he had written Shot close together, but why gild the lily ? Still better... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 652 sidor
...by, Like a storm suddenly, The English archery Stuck the French horses. With Spanish yew so stiong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung,...And like true English hearts, Stuck close together. When down their bows they threw, And forth their bilbos drew, And on the French they flew, Not one... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 sidor
...English archery Stuck the French horses. With Spanish yew so stiong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, 'i hat like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather ; None...manly parts, And like true English hearts, Stuck close togelher. When down their bows they threw, And forth their bilbos drew, And on the French they flew,... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 412 sidor
...Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stong, 75 Piercing the wether; None from his death now starts, But playing manly parts, And like true English hearts Stuck close together. 80 When down their bows they threw, And forth their bilbows drew, And on the French they flew: No man... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 424 sidor
...Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stong, 75 Piercing the wether ; None from his death now starts, But playing manly parts, And like true English hearts Stuck close together. 80 When down their bows they threw, And forth their bilbows drew, And on the French they flew: . No... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1924 - 400 sidor
...Storme suddenly, The English Archery Stuck the French Horses. With Spanish Ewgh so strong, Arrowes a Cloth-yard long, That like to Serpents stung, Piercing...And like true English hearts, Stuck close together. When downe their Bowes they threw, And forth their Bilbowes drew, And on the French they flew, Not... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1923 - 648 sidor
...aim To our hid forces ! When, from a meadow by, Like a storm suddenly, 70 The English archery Stuck the French horses. With Spanish yew so strong; Arrows a cloth-yard long. 41. Poitiers and Creasy (or Crécy), famous Entflieh victories in France during the Hundred Years'... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 sidor
...nge became, 0 noble Erpinghnm !* Which did the signal aim To our hid forces ; When, from a meadow by, Like a storm, suddenly, The English archery Struck...weather ; None from his fellow starts, But playing manly jmrts, And, like true English hearts, Stuck close together. When down their bows they threw, And forth... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 sidor
...aim To our hid forces ! When, from a meadow by, Like a storm suddenly, 15 The English archery Stuck the French horses. With Spanish yew so strong; Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpent stung, 20 Piercing the weather. None from his fellow starts ; But, playing manly parts, And... | |
 | 1926 - 780 sidor
...age became, O noble Erpingham, Which didst the signal aim To our hid forces! When from a meadow by, Like a storm suddenly, The English archery Struck...And like true English hearts Stuck close together. When down their bows they threw, And forth their bilboes drew, And on the French they flew, Not one... | |
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With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather; None from his fellow starts, But, playing manly parts, And like true English hearts, Stuck close together. 
