Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon ; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory,... New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 249edited by - 1820Full view - About this book
| Leigh Hunt - 1841 - 378 pages
...the reader :— Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fab? breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon;...amethyst; And on her hair a glory like a saint: She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest. Save wings, for heaven:—Porphyro grew faint, She knelt, so... | |
| Richard Brown (architect.) - 1841 - 618 pages
...paste. — (A.) " Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fine breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon...her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross pale amethyst ; And on her hair a glory like a saint : She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save... | |
| William Gadiner - 1841 - 508 pages
...youthful fair, kneeling to ask heaven's grace, — so beautifully expressed by the poet, — Rose bloom fell on her hands together prest, And on her silver...soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory like a saint.* How the heavenly tones in solemn grandeur roll along ! It is only upon the continent that we can enjoy... | |
| william gardiner - 1841 - 500 pages
...heaven's grace, — so beautifully expressed by the poet, — Rose bloom fell on her hands together prcst, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory like a saint.* How the heavenly tones in solemn grandeur roll along ! It is only upon the continent that we can enjoy... | |
| 1842 - 818 pages
...glass-window, is acknowledged to be uni vailed : Full on the casement shone the wintry moon. And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt...glory, like a saint : She seem'da splendid angel, newly drcst, Save wings, for heaven. What poet ever described a maiden unrobing in erms of such delicate... | |
| 1843 - 744 pages
...with blood of queens and kings. xxv. " Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt...glory, like a saint: She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven:—Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal... | |
| William Goodman - 1843 - 342 pages
...Heaven's grace, so beautifully expressed by the poet :"| " Rose bloom fell on her hands together press'd, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory like a saint." KEAT'S Eve of St. Agnes. Sorrowfully, but truly, may the learned Digby say, " Gothic * Rob Roy. t Gardiner,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...blushed with blood of queens and kings. Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm think 'twill smile again ; And still the thought I...speak — thou dost not say What thou ne'er Irft'st seemed a splendid angel newly drest. Save wings, for heaven ; Porphyre grew faint : She knelt, so pure... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...blushed with blood of queens and kings. Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm د2. 2. 2. seemed a splendid angel newly drest, Save wings, for heaven ; Porphyro grew faint : She knelt, so pure... | |
| George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 500 pages
...suhdued glow of warm sunlight which streamed in through the great window of the chapel. " Rosc-hlooш fell on her hands together prest ; And on her silver cross soft amethyst ; And on her ha,ra glory l,ke a sшnt : She seemed n splend,d иngel, newly drest, Save wings, tor heaven." Immediately... | |
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