 | Thomas Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 386 pages
...thrice was heard to ring, An aerial voice was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the tow'rs of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howl'd at village door, The oaks were shatter'd on the green1 ; Woe was the hour — for never more That hapless countess e'er was seen.... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1814 - 328 pages
...to ring, An aerial voiee was heard to eall, And thriee the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howl'd at village door, The oaks were shatter'd on the green ; "Woe was the hour — for never more That hapless Countess e'er was seen.... | |
 | Hugh Usher Tighe - Cumner - 1821 - 100 pages
...Cumner Hall so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial...was heard to call ; And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the tow'rs of Cumner Hall. The mastiff howl'd at village door, The oaks were shattered... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 414 pages
...horses in the Queen's name, when those which they rode became unfit for sfirvice. 364 CHAPTER XLI. The death-bell thrice was heard to ring . An aerial voice was heard to call ; And thrice the raven flapped its wing , Around the towers of Cumnor-halL Mickle. WE are now to return to that part of our... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1821 - 340 pages
...pressing horses in the Queen's name when those which they rode became unfit for service. CHAPTER XXIV. The death-bell thrice was heard to ring An aerial voice was heard to call : And thrice the raven flapped its wing, Around the towers of Cumnor-hall Mckle. WE are now to return to that part of our... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heatd, And many a cry of mortal fear. The death-bell thrice was heard to ring. An aerial...The mastiff howl'd at village door, The oaks were shatter VI on the green ; Woe was the hour, for never more That hapless Countess e'er was seen. And,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 282 pages
...Cumnor Hall so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial...was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howl'd at village door, The oaks were shatter'd... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...Cumnor Hall so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial...was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howl'd at village door, The oaks were shatter'd... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...Cumnor Hall so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial...was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howl'd at village door, The oaks were shatter'd... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...Cumnor Hall so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial...was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howl'd at village door, The oaks were shatter'd... | |
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In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear. Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. The death-bell thrice -was heard to ring, — An aerial voice was heard to call, — And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor... 
