 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...sickening, dying, and the dead contain'd. John Armstrong. — Born 1709, Died 1779. 928.— CUMNOE HALL. The pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired : Th Silvor'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - 1873 - 418 pages
...moonlight nights, he would walk up and down some alleys of trees, repeating the first 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." Sir Walter Scott says, in " Kenilworth,"—... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 pages
...Cumnor Hall, was never weary of repeating< during those evening walks, the following 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." In Scott's love for these lines... | |
 | Noble Butler - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1874 - 342 pages
...Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good ! — Goldsmith. The dews of summer night did fall; The moon, sweet regent of the sky. Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall I And many an oak that grew thereby. — Micklc. Ah ! my heart is... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1875 - 622 pages
...Miekle. CUMNOR HALL. 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...unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely pile. "Leieester," she eried, "is this the love That thou so oft hast sworn to me, To leave me in this lonely... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...Oxford, 1788.] 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...— Save an unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from the lonely pile. " Leicester," she cried, " is this thy love, That thou SO oft hast sworn to me ; To... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry - 1875 - 168 pages
...Annie from my door, * Wha died for love of me ! ' 1 20 Unknown 94 bide, wait * 41 * CUM NOR HALL THE dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet Regent...grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the skies ; 5 The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs That issued from that lonely pile.... | |
 | 1875 - 822 pages
...species of enchantment for his youthful ear, "the force of which is not even now entirely spent." The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Grainger, who wrote a long and wearisome poem in blank verse on " The Sugar Cane," was the intimate... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1875 - 660 pages
...force of which is not even now entirely spent ; some others are sufficiently prosaic. CUMNOR HALL. The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, SilverM the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...MICKLE. 1734-1788. The dews of summer nights did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky,1 Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall And many an oak that grew thereby. Cumnor Hall. 1 And hail their queen, fair regent of the nigh't. Darwin, The Botanic Garden, Pt. I,... | |
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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. 
