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
| 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... | |
| Dean Dudley - England - 1851 - 268 pages
...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...were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely pile. ' Leicester,' she criod, ' is this thy love, That thou so oft hast sworn to... | |
| Dean Dudley - England - 1851 - 262 pages
...Rammer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many nu oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath...were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely pile. ' Leicester,' she cried, ' is this thy love, That tlrou so oft hast sworn to... | |
| 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... | |
| Durham city, sch - 1852 - 486 pages
...TQVVVirvlOV. ALLANSON BAILE V IG CUMNOR HALL. 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 has sworn to me.... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...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. Chambers says that of this ballad an imperfect, altered, and corrected... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 698 pages
...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 the skiet, The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs, ''' issued from that lonely... | |
| Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...arise, and light them on their way. MALL. 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 hath sworn to me,... | |
| Morbida - 1854 - 196 pages
...: — In such a night as this," &c. J " 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." — MICKLE. " The first stanza especially had a peculiar species of enchantment for the youthful ear... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1855 - 522 pages
...realm — that half-mystic idea that consecrated what it touched ; the moonlight, as it were, which " Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." Why, then, did the English endure the everlasting Chancellor ? The fact is, that Lord Eldon's rule... | |
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