| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 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... | |
| Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1877 - 482 pages
...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 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... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 312 pages
...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 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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1877 - 598 pages
...name, when those which they rode became unfit for service. CHAP. XLI. The death-bell thrice was hfard to ring. An aerial voice was heard to call. And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cituitior Hall. — MICKLE. IE are now to return to that part of our story... | |
| Walter Scott - 1879 - 422 pages
...to ring, An serial voice was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howl'd at village door, The oaks were shatter'd on the green ; Wo was the hour— for never more That hapless Countess e'er was seen ! And... | |
| John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...Hall, so lone and drear. Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. XXYt. 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. XXvIt. The mastiff howled at village door, The oaks... | |
| John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 126 pages
...to ring- ; An airy voice was heard to call ; And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howl'd at village door ; The oaks were shatter'd on the green ; Woe was the hour ! for never more That hapless Countess e'er was seen. And... | |
| Readers - 1880 - 404 pages
...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 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... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...Cumnor Hall so long and drear ; Full many a pi'ercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. 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... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. no bugles sound reveillé. SIR WALTER SCOTT. THE Бол TIE Rows. OH, weel may the boatie wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howl'd at village door, The oaks were shatter'd... | |
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