 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...who wrote it, but authorities entitled to respect attribute the authorship to Mickle. CUMNOR HALL. 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1879 - 422 pages
...open and unruffled brow," he left the apartment. GEORGE-GOLD NOBLE OF HENRY VIH. CHAPTER THE SIXTH. The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet...the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew therehy.* MICKLE. FOUR apartments, which occupied the western side of the old quadrangle at Cumnor-Place,... | |
 | Charles Gibbon - 1877 - 328 pages
...that he could defy all the efforts of Lamington to obtain justice. CHAPTEE V. THE SECRET PASSAGE. " Now, nought was heard beneath the skies, (The sounds...unhappy lady's sighs That issued from that lonely pile. ***** " Thus sore and sad the lady grieved In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear ; And many a heartfelt... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1877 - 482 pages
...forco 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, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 308 pages
...dying day, sir, That whatsoever king shall reign, Still I'll be Vicar of Bray, sir. ANONYMOUS. Cfumnot 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 naught was heard beneath... | |
 | William Davidson (B.A.), Joseph Crosby Alcock - Analysis (Philosophy) - 1877 - 240 pages
...sung the strain : " Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves ! Britons never shall be slaves." 10. The dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silvered the walls of Cumuor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. 11. There are a thousand joyous... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 602 pages
...muttering, " Now for a close heart, and an open and unruffled brow," he left the apartment. CHAP. VI. Tlie dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver d the walls of Cumnor Hall, And litany an oak that grew thereby. — MICKLE. I OUR apartments,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 312 pages
...ANONYMOUS. fflumnoc 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 naught was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs,... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 242 pages
...of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet Kegent1 of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall,2 And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was...life were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs That issued3 from that lonely pile.* * This ballad refers to the death of Amy Robsart, first wife ot Eobert... | |
 | Edward Walford - England - 1878 - 402 pages
...has read Percy's ' Reliques ' can call to mind without a tear the ballad of Mickle, which begins — The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby ? And how many Oxford men have never forgotten the walk to Cumnor along the ' Seven-Bridge Road/ and... | |
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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. 
