 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...others talk, yet own I still Far deeper thoughts than theirs my bosom fill. is. WILLIAMS. CUMNOR HALL. THE dews of summer night did fall; The moon, sweet...many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard heneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...others talk, yet own I still Far deeper thoughts than theirs my bosom fill. IS. WILLIAMS. CUMNOR HALL. THE dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Curanor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the skies, The sounds... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 566 pages
...Cumnor-hall, the germ of Kenilworth, of which he used as a boy to be continually repeating the first verse, " The dews of summer night did fall — The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor-hall, And many an oak that grew thereby ; — " in the lays of Tasso,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 612 pages
...first stanza — 'The dews of summer light did fall — The Moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby.' " I have thought it worth while to pKserve these reminiscences of his companions al the time, though... | |
 | Alfred Durling Bartlett - 1850 - 172 pages
...Baker " in his Chronicle would have had it at Killingworth,) anno " 1588." L, page 78. CUMNER HALL. The 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 the skies, (The sounds... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1850 - 940 pages
...CUMNOR HALL. The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet resent of the sky, Silver'd the walla of Cumnor Hall* And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the sides, The sounds of busy life were still, Sure an unhappy lady's sighs, That tatied from that lonely... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...ambition. Cumnor Hall. The dews of summer night did full, The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silvered where beauty lingers, And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there skiei (The sounds of busy life were still), Save an unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely... | |
 | Dean Dudley - England - 1851 - 268 pages
...when timbrels, sweet recorders, pipes and cornets, were making night vibrate with thrilling melody? " The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...impression made upon Sir Walter Scott, in early life, by the first stanza,* the world is probably * " The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." indebted for Kenilworth. Mr.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 698 pages
...force of which is not even now entirely spent ; some others are sufficiently prosaic. CUMNOR HALL. The dews of Summer night did fall ; ^ The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Si'"**'d the walls of Cumnor Hall, / nJ many an oak that grew thereby Now nought was heard beneath... | |
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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. 
