| Joseph S. Moore - Ballads - 1846 - 376 pages
...necessary to the understanding, or pertinent in illustrating it, will be found in the Notes.] ! ARK was the night, and wild the storm, And loud the torrent's...in sore dismay. With hospitable haste he rose, And waked his sleeping fire, And snatching up a lighted brand, Forth hied the reverend sire. All sad beneath... | |
| 1851 - 362 pages
...original compositions, is here appended as a necessary addition to the foregoing collection. FIT I. DARK was the night, and wild the storm, And loud the torrent's...weak hapless state. The lonely Hermit lay ; When, lo ! be heard a female voice Lament in sore dismay. With hospitable haste he rose. And wak'd his sleeping... | |
| George Musalas Colvocoresses - California - 1852 - 412 pages
...amidst a tempest of wind and rain. ' Dark was the night, and wild the storm, And loud the torrents roar ; And loud the sea was heard to dash Against the distant shore." Many trees were laid prostrate by the storm, and among the rest his favorite willow, beneath whose... | |
| Joseph S. Moore - Ballads, English - 1853 - 900 pages
...pertinent in illustrating it, will be found in the Notes.] A ARK was the night, and wild the slorm, I] And loud the torrent's roar; / And loud the sea was heard to dash Against the distant shoreMusing on man's weak hapless state, The lonely hermit lay, When, lo ! he heard a female voice... | |
| LIEUT. GEO.M. COLVOVORESSES - 1855 - 376 pages
...amidst a tempest of wind and rain. ' Dark was the night, and wild the storm, And loud the torrents roar ; And loud the sea was heard to dash Against the distant shore." Many trees were laid prostrate by the storm, and among the rest his favorite willow, beneath whose... | |
| Walter White - Borders Region (Scotland) - 1859 - 498 pages
...Eecollections of the bishop's well-known ballad come crowding on the mind and rouse your curiosity : " Musing on man's weak hapless state The lonely hermit...! he heard a female voice Lament in sore dismay." You see an altar, monumental sculptures, a piscina and lavatory, a hagioscope — in common speech,... | |
| Carlo Varese - 1860 - 444 pages
...slopes of the hills which arose before it. CHAPTEE XXXII. THE HERMIT. ' Musing on man'a weak helpless state, The lonely hermit lay ; When, lo ! he heard a female voice Lament in sore dismay." — BALLAD. as they appeared in safety, Folchetto ceased &* those measures of coercion wherewith he... | |
| Ballads - 1867 - 638 pages
...family, one of whom it supposed to have formed this hermitage." — Rambles in Northumberland. DARK was the night, and wild the storm, And loud the torrent's...in sore dismay. With hospitable haste he rose, And waked his sleeping fire ; And snatching up a lighted brand, Forth hied the re^'rend sire. All sad beneath... | |
| Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1869 - 388 pages
...compositions. Sec Eeliques of Ancient Eng. Poetry, Vol. II. p. 1C6 and 397. 2dEd. FIT THE FIRST. 1 DARK was the night, and wild the storm, And loud the torrent's...the sea was heard to dash Against the distant shore. 2 Musing on man's weak hapless state, The lonely Hermit lay; When, lo ! he heard a female voice Lament... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 276 pages
...cities. 32 THE HERMIT OF WARKWORTH, AND SIR AGILTHORN. No. 72. THE HERMIT OF WARKWORTH. FIT I. ARK was the night, and wild the storm, And loud the torrent's...in sore dismay. With hospitable haste he rose, And waked his sleeping fire, And snatching up a lighted brand, Forth hied the reverend sire. All sad beneath... | |
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