 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
 | George Adlard - 1870 - 386 pages
...:2 " CUMJSTOE 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...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,... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - Europe - 1871 - 534 pages
...closing lines of the poem are these : — " 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. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As wandering onwards they've... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1871 - 496 pages
...KenUworth." THE LEICESTER SHIELD. =™: '•ftTHE 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. I rose up with the cheerful morn, No lark more blithe, no flower more gay ; And like the bird that... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - Novelists, English - 1872 - 502 pages
...first stanza j — " ' 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.' " That the impression made by this poem was as clear as it was enduring we have the best proof in the... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1871 - 156 pages
...first stanza : — ' 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.' " That the impression made by this poem was as clear as it was enduring, we have the best proof in... | |
 | Nathan Boughton Warren - Christmas stories - 1872 - 310 pages
...park beyond the walls of the court-yard, reminded me of a favorite old song : "The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." I thought of the quaint fun and merriment I had just witnessed ; of the unexpected appearance of my... | |
 | Mrs. Molesworth - 1872 - 314 pages
...Hall" had for him. Do you remember — " 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." I only remember that verse ; I don't care a bit for the rest of the ballad, though no doubt we owe... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...928.— CUMNOE HALL. The dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silvor'd pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to... ̰ a Q ϐ肀 "? 1873 Ward"1 Beeton from that lonely pile. " Leicester," she cried, " is this thy love That thou во oft hast sworn to... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 pages
...following stanza : — " 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." In Scott's love for these lines we may trace a poetic soul, a gentle disposition, a mind ahove the... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...Oxford, 1788.] 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...still — Save an unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from the lonely pile. " Leicester," she cried, " is this thy love, That thou SO oft hast sworn to me... | |
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