The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the -sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, * Save an unhappy lady's sighs, .... Bride of Lammermoor - Peveril of the peak - Page 211by Walter Scott - 1833Full view - About this book
| J. C. - 1860 - 196 pages
...EDMTMI EVAN*. . 148 . 152 . 158 . 162 167 r FWOURITE MODERN BALLADS 1' r - • THE dews of summer-night did fall; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the skies The sounds of busy... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1860 - 362 pages
...soul of Scottish and of general nature, and worthy, as Burns says, of' the first poet.' CUMNOR HALL. 1 The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. 2 Now nought was heard beneath... | |
| 1861 - 882 pages
...fascination in youth (and he tells us it was not entirely gone even in age), in Mickle's stanza : — The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Not a remarkable verse, I think.... | |
| 1861 - 606 pages
...fascination in youth, (and he tells us it was not entirely gone even in age,) in Mickle's stanza : "The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the wulls of Cuninor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." Xot a remarkable verse, I think.... | |
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1862 - 400 pages
...fascination in youth (and he tells us it was not entirely gone even in age), in Mickle's stanza : — The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Not a remarkable verse, I think.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1867 - 354 pages
...(volume iv page 130,) to which work Mickle made liberal contributions. The first stanza especially had a peculiar species of enchantment for the youthful...force of which is not even now entirely spent ; some ethers are sufficiently prosaic. CUMNOR HALL. THE dews of summer night did fall; The moon, sweet regent... | |
| John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...fifth did whirl about The other four, in wond'rous motion. SHAESPERE. — King John, Act IV. Scene 2. The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. MICELE. — See Scott's Introduction to Kenil worth. 1. By... | |
| 1863 - 302 pages
...away, And angle on ; and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave. CUMNOR HALL. By WJ Micktc. HE dews of summer night did fall; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the skies — The sounds of busy... | |
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1863 - 446 pages
...fascination in youth (and he tells us it was not entirely gone even in age), in Mickle's stanza : — The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Not a remarkable verse, I think.... | |
| William Howitt - 1863 - 726 pages
...the germ of Kenilwortb, of which he used as a boy to be continually repeating the first verse, — " The dews of summer night did fall — The moon, sweet regent of the iky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor hall. And many an oak that grew thereby; " — • in the lays of... | |
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