The oaks were shatter'd on the green ; Woe was the hour — for never more That hapless Countess e'er was seen ! And in that Manor now no more Is cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The... Waverley Novels ...: Kenilworth - Page 10by Walter Scott - 1853Full view - About this book
| Thomas Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 386 pages
...cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the...hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the countess' fall, As wand'ring onwards they've espied The haunted tow'rs of Cumnor-Hall. XX. •• • ' ARABELLA STUART.... | |
| Ballads, English - 1814 - 328 pages
...village maids, with fearful glan. Avoid the aneient raossgrown wal(Q9 " 1 Nor ever lead the merry danee, Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. .Full many a traveller...hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As wand'ring onwards they've espied The haunted towers of Cumnor Hall ' FRIAR OF ORDERS GRAY. IT was a... | |
| Robert Laneham - English drama - 1821 - 158 pages
...dreary hour, Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids.with fearful glance, Avoid the ;mcicnt moss-grown wall ; Nor ever lead the me.rry dance,...pensive wept the Countess' fall, As wandering onwards they've espied The haunted tow'rs of Cumnor Hall. A LETTER: part of t&e Entertain ment unto t&e €Xueen'0... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1821 - 358 pages
...tragedy the «subject of a beautiful elegy, called Cumnor-Hall, which concludes with these lines : The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the...Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor-Hall. And many a traveller has sigh'd, And pensive mourn'd that lady's fall, As wandering onward... | |
| Hugh Usher Tighe - Cumner - 1821 - 100 pages
...cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumner Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the...Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumner Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As wand'ring... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 282 pages
...cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the...they Ve espied The haunted towers of Cumnor Hall! SONGS. THE SHEPHERD IN LOVE. WERE Nancy but a rural maid, And I her only swain, To tend our flocks... | |
| Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...cheerful feast and sprightly hall ; For ever, since that dreary hour, Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the...As wandering onwards, they 've espied The haunted tow'rs of Cumnor Hall. In 1775, the entire translation of the Lusiad at length made its appearance,... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...cheerful feast and sprightly ball; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirit* haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the...they 've espied , The haunted towers of Cumnor Hall ! MICKLE. ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST. As near Porto Bello lying On the gently swelling flood, At midnight... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall'. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the...they 've espied The haunted towers of Cumnor Hall ! MICKLE. ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST. As near Porto Bello lying On the gently swelling flood, At midnight... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...cheerful feast and sprightly ball; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the...groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sigb'd, And pensive wept the countess" fall, As .wandering onwards they 've espied The haunted towers... | |
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