 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1863 - 726 pages
...the germ of Kenilwortb, 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 iky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor hall. And many an oak that grew thereby; " — • in the lays of... | |
 | English ballads - 1864 - 296 pages
...away, And angle on; and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave. CUMNOR HALL. By WJ Mickle. HE dews of summer night did fall; The moon, sweet regent...unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely pile. " I^icester!" she cried, "is this thy love That thou so oft hast sworn to me, To leave me in this lonely... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - 356 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...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. * MlCKLE. FOUR apartments, which occupied the western side of the old quadrangle at Cumnor-Place, had... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - English essays - 1864 - 400 pages
...in youth (and he tells us it was not entirely gone even in age), in Mickle's stanza : — 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. Not a remarkable verse, I think.... | |
 | Book - Ballads, English - 1865 - 308 pages
...I11 . I1t 118 . 122 . 125 . 128 . 131 . 131 ^ k *\* -r=a««fe CUMNOR HALL. THE dews of snmmer-night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd...unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely pile. ' Leieester ! " she eried, " is this thy love, That thou so oft hast sworn to me, To leave me in this... | |
 | Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pages
...olfiriv. То SÉ -yf/pac OÚ <T£ T£í'p£í, avatfi а<гарк£, о/лоюс. Ti». GED 15 Cumnor The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet...the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew therby. Now nought was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still ; Save an unhappy... | |
 | Margaret T. Downing - English poetry - 1867 - 394 pages
...be lightly regarded. Walter Scott found it in "Evan's Ancient Ballads," and ascribed it to Mlckle : 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...never to be gratified, that of these edifices no traces now remain. The moonbeams uo longer silver "The walls of Cumnor Hall And many an oak that grew thereby." The walls have for years been razed to the ground, and as for the oaks — if any ever existed on the... | |
 | 1868 - 624 pages
...niglits ; and he seemed never weary of repeating the first stanza: both to disease and medicine My "' 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.' " That the impression made by... | |
 | American periodicals - 1868 - 850 pages
...Square,) especially in the moonlight nights ; and he seemed never weary of repeating the first stanza : " 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." ' That the impression made by... | |
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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. 
