 | Frank F. Gibson - Animals - 1904 - 222 pages
...Walter Scott the groundwork of his romance Kenilworth, there is a reference to the superstition : " 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 Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howled at village door, The oaks were... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 1058 pages
...And let fall many a bitter tear. And ere the dawn of day appeared, In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial voice was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapped its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howled at village door, The oaks were... | |
 | Henry Bernard Cotterill - 1906 - 140 pages
...Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. 60 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. The mastiff how I'd at village door ; The oaks were shatter'd... | |
 | Anne Hollingsworth Wharton - England - 1908 - 350 pages
...the dawn of day appeared, In Curnnor 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. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1908 - 398 pages
...the dawn of day appeared, 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 ring, An aerial vo;ce was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapped its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...the dawn of day appeared, 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 howled at village door, The oaks were... | |
 | Marion Harland - Historic buildings - 1910 - 382 pages
...the dawn of day appeared, 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... | |
 | William Winter - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 362 pages
...prompted Scott to write "Kenilworth," floated back to me, from the realm of Long Ago: The death bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial voice was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapped its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. Much indeed as Shakespeare has transmuted the story... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 2001 - 366 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... | |
 | Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - Reference - 2003 - 634 pages
...nostrils. If they wake much. If they see spirits of friends. If they gradually lose consciousness. "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 Cumnor Hall." (Mickle.) If a sick person keeps the hands waving... | |
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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. 
