 | Jeanie M. Laing - Folklore - 1885 - 120 pages
...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 his wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howled at village door, The oaks were... | |
 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1889 - 336 pages
...Colin,' and this perfect stanza in Mickle's • Cumnor Hall,' quoted in Introd. to ' Kenilworth ' : — 'The death-bell thrice was heard to ring, An aerial...was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall.' 1. 217. Cp. Midsummer Night's Dream, v. 1. 286: 'The death... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Children's poetry - 1891 - 384 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...was heard to call, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howPd at village door, The oaks were shatter'd on... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Children's poetry - 1891 - 816 pages
...to ring ; An aerial 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 !... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1896 - 510 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, The mastiff kowl'd at village door, The oaks were shatter'd on the green ; Woe was the hour — for... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 554 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 his wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howled at village door, The oaks were... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1900 - 482 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. h 2 niven flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hull. The mastiff howl'd at village door. The oaks... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1901 - 350 pages
...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 napped its wing Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howled at village door. The oaks were... | |
 | George Eyre-Todd - England - 1903 - 236 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 his wins;, Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howled at village door, The oaks were... | |
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In 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 flapp'd its wing Around the towers of Cumnor... 
