 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 126 pages
...to ring- ; An airy voice was heard to call ; And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howl'd at village door ; The oaks were shatter'd on the green ; Woe was the hour ! for never more That hapless Countess e'er was seen. And... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...the dawn of day appeared, In Cumnor Hall so long and drear ; Full many a pi'ercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. The death-bell thrice...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... | |
 | Readers - 1880 - 404 pages
...the dawn of day appear'd, 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...aerial voice was heard to call ; And thrice the raven flapped its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howl'd at village door ; The oaks were... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...the dawn. of day appear'd, 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 call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howl'd at village door, The oaks were shatter'd... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...rook'd her on the chimney's top, And chatt'ring pies in dismal discords sung. Sh, £T. VI. 3, v. 6. The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial voice was heard to call ; And thrice the raven flnpp'd his wing, Around the towers of Cumnor 1 1 nil. Mickle. OPIB1ATIVENE3S — see Conceit. Nothing's... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...dawn of day appeared, In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, 26 The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial voice was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapped his wing Around the towers of Cumiior Hall. 27 The mastiff howled at village door, The oaks... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...lone anil drear, Full mauy a piercing scream was heard. And many a cry of mortal fear. The dentb-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial voice was heard to call. And thrice the raven flapped his wing Around tbe towers of Cnmuor ilalL The mastiff howled at village door, The oaks were... | |
 | Girls - 1883 - 162 pages
...the dawn of day appear' d, 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...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 - 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...was heard to 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... | |
 | 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...was heard to 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... | |
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In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear. Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. 
