 | Girls - 1883 - 162 pages
...heartfelt sigh she heaved, And let fall many a bitter tear. And ere the dawn of day appear' d, In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream...aerial voice was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapped his wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howled at village door, The oaks were... | |
 | Rev. Alexander Stewart - Folklore - 1883 - 444 pages
...familiar. Mickle, in his fine ballad Cumnor Hall, has a reference to the same superstition : — " The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial...call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall." To sneer at such beliefs, and pooh-pooh them superciliously and from a philosophical... | |
 | Rev. Alexander Stewart - Folklore - 1883 - 438 pages
...familiar. Mickle, in his fine ballad Cumnor Hall, has a reference to the same superstition : — " The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial...call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall." To sneer at such beliefs, and pooh-pooh them superciliously and from a philosophical... | |
 | Rev. Alexander Stewart - Folklore - 1883 - 436 pages
...familiar. Mickle, in his fine ballad Cumnor Hall, has a reference to the same 'iinnirBtiiini : — " The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial...call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall." To sneer at such beliefs, and pooh-pooh them superciliously and from a philosophical... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 1018 pages
...name, when those which they rode became unfit for service. CHAPTER FORTY-FIRST. The death-bell tlirice was heard to ring, An aerial voice was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. MICKLR. WE are now to return to that part of our story where we intimated that... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1884 - 544 pages
...pressing horses in the Queen's name, when those which they rode became unfit for service. CHAPTEK XLI. The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial...was heard to call ; And thrice the raven flapp'd its wine, Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. MICKLE. Castle. [E are now to return to that part of our story... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pages
...heartfelt sigh she heaved, and let fall many a bitter tear. And ere the dawn of day appeared, in Cumnor Hall so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream...aerial voice was heard to call ; And thrice the raven flapped his wing around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howled at village door, the oaks were... | |
 | Jeanie M. Laing - Folklore - 1885 - 120 pages
...of Kenilworth, various death omens are introduced :— " And, ere the dawn of day appeared 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 flapped... | |
 | Walter Scott - English fiction - 1886 - 908 pages
...horses in the queen's name, when those which they rode became unfit for service. CHAPTER FORTY-FIRST. The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial...call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Curanor Hall. MlCKLB. WE are now to return to that part of our story where we intimated that... | |
 | James Samuel Stone - England - 1887 - 418 pages
...failing, rougher were employed. One night the deed was done: " And ere the dawn of day appeared In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear." The wicked earl did not become the consort of the queen, but in 1575 he gave to her at Kenilworth an entertainment... | |
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Thus sore and sad that lady grieved, In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear ; And many a heartfelt sigh she heaved, And let fall many a bitter tear. And ere the dawn of day appeared, In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear. 
