| Thomas Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 384 pages
...monks of Abington. A HE dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew...issued from that lonely pile. * - • " Leicester," she cried, " is this thy love " That thou so oft has sworn to me, " To leave me in this lonely grove, "... | |
| Thomas Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 386 pages
...were still standing. — It had been anciently a place of retirement for the monks of Abington. JL HE dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath... | |
| Ballads, English - 1814 - 328 pages
...Half, And many an oak that grew therehy. Now nanght was "heard heneath the skies, (The sounds of husy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely pile. 'Leieester,' she eried, * is this thy love That thou so oft has sworn to me, To leave me in this lonely... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 412 pages
..., « Now for a close heart , and an open and unruffled brow, » he left the apartment. CHAPTER VI. The dews of summer night did fall, The moon , sweet regent of the sky, Silver' d the walls of Cumnor-hall , And many an oak that grew thereby. Miekle. FOUR apartments , which... | |
| Robert Laneham - English drama - 1821 - 158 pages
...from that, the present excerpt has been made which is now presented to the reader : — CUMNOR HALL. The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And miny an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath... | |
| Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1821 - 330 pages
...muttering, " Now for a close heart, and an open and unruffled brow," he left the apartment. CHAPTER VI. The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor-hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Mickle. FOUR apartments, which... | |
| Hugh Usher Tighe - Cumner - 1821 - 100 pages
...to the poor has been substituted in lieu of it. • Bibl. Topog. Brit.— Lyson's Berkshire. JL HE dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silver'd the walls of Cumner Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 282 pages
...and died. CUMNOR HALL. THE dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew...That issued from that lonely pile. ' Leicester (she cried), is this thy love, That thou so oft hast sworn to me, To leave me in this lonely grove, Immured... | |
| Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...hoped, be deemed out of place. In the following copy, the antique spelling is dropped. CUMNOR HALL. The dews of Summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now, nought was heard beneath... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...side, And burst — low bow'd her listless head, And down she sunk, and died. MICKLE. CUMNOR HALL. THE dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath... | |
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