 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
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 312 pages
...ANONYMOUS. fflumnoc 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. Now naught was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1877 - 482 pages
...apartment. CHAPTER VI. 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, t Mickle. PopR apartments, which occupied the western side of the old quadrangle at Cumnor Place, had... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 242 pages
...of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet Kegent1 of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall,2 And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was...life were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs That issued3 from that lonely pile.* * This ballad refers to the death of Amy Robsart, first wife ot Eobert... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 126 pages
...; The moon, sweet Regent1 of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall,2 And many an oak that grow thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the skies ;...life were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs That issued3 from that lonely pile.4 man. 12 bloody surf. Bloody with the mangled bodies of the men devoured... | |
 | Edward Walford - England - 1878 - 402 pages
...tear the ballad of Mickle, which begins — 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 ? And how many Oxford men have never forgotten the walk to Cumnor along the ' Seven-Bridge Road/ and... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...given. CUMNOR HALL. t. 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. It. Now nought was heard beneath the skies (The sounds of busy life were still), Save an unhappy lady's... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations, English - 1878 - 896 pages
...MICKLE. 1734-1788. The dews of summer nights did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky,1 Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall And many an oak that grew thereby. Cumnor Hall. 1 Now Cynthia nam'd, fair regent of the night. Gay, Trivia. Book iii. 1688-1732. And hail... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...given. CUMNOR HALL. 1. 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. tt. Now nought was heard beneath the skies (The sounds of busy life were still), Save an unhappy lady's... | |
 | Robert Henry Elliot - Agriculture - 1879 - 346 pages
...of nature. ' Does it not remind you of : 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.' ' What a romantic fellow you are, Martin ! ' ' That will be all gone by the time I get back, and with... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1879 - 298 pages
...good !— Goldsmith. 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.— Mickle. When around thee dying, Autumn leaves are lying, O ! then remember me. And at night, when gazing... | |
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