 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 544 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... | |
 | Arthur John Lockhart - English essays - 1903 - 396 pages
...dawning of her fateful day— "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." And, in the Wallenstein of Schiller, we find a... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 1058 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... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - American literature - 1904 - 1196 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 wings Around the towers of Cumnor Hall. The mastiff howled at village door, The oaks were... | |
 | Frank F. Gibson - Animals - 1904 - 222 pages
...Walter Scott the groundwork of his romance Kenilworth, there is a reference to the superstition : " 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 Bernard Cotterill - 1906 - 140 pages
...Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. 60 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 how I'd at village door ; The oaks were shatter'd... | |
 | Anne Hollingsworth Wharton - England - 1908 - 350 pages
...Curnnor 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. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 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... | |
 | Marion Harland - Historic buildings - 1910 - 382 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... | |
 | William Winter - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 362 pages
...prompted Scott to write "Kenilworth," floated back to me, from the realm of Long Ago: 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. Much indeed as Shakespeare has transmuted the story... | |
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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... 
