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" The oaks were shatter'd on the green , Woe was the hour — for never more That hapless Countess e'er was seen! And in that Manor now no more Is cheerful feast and sprightly ball; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village... "
An Historical Account of Cumner: With Some Particulars of the Traditions ... - Page 66
by Hugh Usher Tighe - 1821 - 70 pages
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The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and Modern

John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...cheerful feast or sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. XXIX. The village maids with fearful glance Avoid the ancient...Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. XXX. Full many a traveller has sighed, And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As wandering...
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The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and Modern

John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...cheerful feast or sprightly ball; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. XX1X. The village maids with fearful glance Avoid the ancient...Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. XXX. THE SPIRIT OF THE CAPE. (From The Lusiad.) [This passage is referred to in Tennant's...
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Prescott's Paragon Reciter: An Unusually Attractive Collection of the Very ...

Readers - 1880 - 404 pages
...more Is cheerful feast or sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid...Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the countess' fall. As wandering...
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Gems of national poetry. Compiled and ed. by mrs. Valentine

Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...Is cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid...Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sighed, And pensive wept the countess' fall. As wandering...
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The Fireside Encyclopaedia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most ...

Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...Is cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall And many an oak...was hoard beneath the skies, The eounds of busy lif Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As wandering...
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Specimens, with memoirs, of the less-known British poets. With an ..., Volume 2

George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...cheerful feast or sprightly ball; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor HalL 29 The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall; Nor never lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor HalL 30 Full many a traveller has sighed, And...
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The girls' book of poetry, a selection from British and American poets

Girls - 1883 - 162 pages
...more Is cheerful feast or sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid...Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller has sigh'd,' And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As wandering onwards...
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Kenilworth. With illustr. by D. Maillard [and others].

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1884 - 544 pages
...Is cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid...Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the Countess fall, As wand'ring...
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The haunted homes and family traditions of Great Britain

John Henry Ingram - Ghosts - 1884 - 340 pages
...Is cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever, since that dreary hour, Have spirits haunted Cumuor Hall. " The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid...Nor ever lead the merry dance, Among the groves of Cumnor HalL " Full many a traveller oft hath sighed And pensive wept the countess's fall, As, wandering...
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Bell's Ladies' Reader: a Class-book of Poetry for Schools and Families. With ...

David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pages
...is cheerful feast or sprightly ball ; For, ever since that dreary hour, have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids with fearful glance, avoid...Nor ever lead the merry dance among the groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sighed, and pensive wept the Countess' fall ; As wandering...
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