 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...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... | |
 | 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
...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 - 532 pages
...sufficiently prosaic. CUMNOR HALL. THE dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of tbc sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Morbida - 1854 - 196 pages
...Titania, some time of the night." t " The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this," &c. J " The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." — MICKLE. " The first stanza especially had a peculiar species of enchantment for the youthful ear... | |
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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. 
