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. Kenilworth - Page viiiby Walter Scott - 1836Full view - About this book
| England - 1840 - 784 pages
...recent of the sky, Silver'd the walls ot'Cumnor Hall. And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nonght was heard beneath the skies The sounds of busy life...were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely pile. " Leicester," she cried, " is this thy love That thou so oft hast sworn to me,... | |
| Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...been by puss molested. (IT umnov 3ii.aU. THE dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And...were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely pile. ' Leicester !" she cried, " is this thy love That thou so oft hast sworn to... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...ambition. Cumnor Ifall. The dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silvered pt that he ordered the garden gate to be bolted up,...blockade, he left Dendermond to itself, to be relieved from that lonely pile. ' Leicester,' she cried, ' is this thy love That thou so oft hast sworn to me,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...ambition. Cumnor Hall. The dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silvered kindred hand ^ Touched his wide shoulders, after bending...the infant world ; By her in stature the tall Amaz from that lonely pile. ' Leicester,' she cried, ' is this thy IOVB That thou so oft hast sworn to me,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1844 - 662 pages
...apartment. VoL. VL щ^&щт Vj The dews of summer night did full. The moon, sweet regent of ihe aky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." Micus. OUR apartments, which occupied the western side of the old quadrangle at Cumnor-Place, had been... | |
| 1856 - 1432 pages
..." haunted " Scott : " The dews of night began to fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." " This verse," he says, " he will re-arrange as a translator would re-arrange it : " "The nightly dews... | |
| American literature - 1856 - 606 pages
...which " haunted" Scott. "The dews of night began to fall, The mooo, sweet recent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." "This verse," he says, "he will rearrange as a translator would rearrange it:" " The nightly dews commenced... | |
| Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...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...were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely pile. "Leicester !" she cried, "is this thy love That thou so oft hast sworn to me,... | |
| Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...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 Cumnor Hall, And...many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard heneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from... | |
| Alfred Durling Bartlett - 1850 - 172 pages
...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...still,) Save an unhappy Lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely pile. " Leicester," she cried, " is this thy love " That thou so oft has sworn to... | |
| |