The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell,... Geographical Plays - Página 14por Jane Andrews - 1880 - 23 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 páginas
...fairy's hand " Twixt poplars straight the osier wand -• In many a freakish knot had twined, 1 - Then framed a spell when the work was done, " And changed the willow wreaths to stone." Then he showed us the marble stone (" a Scottish monarch sleeps below ") on which Deloraine and the... | |
| 1840 - 378 páginas
...some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow- wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Show'd many a prophet and many a saint, Whose image on the glass... | |
| Robert Rouière Pearce - 1841 - 192 páginas
...fairy's hand, ' Twist poplar's straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet and many a saint, Whose image on the glass... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 páginas
...thought some fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." .• The original beautifully fretted and sculptured stone roof of the east end of the chancel is still... | |
| Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 páginas
...some fairy's hand, Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow- wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet, and many a saint. Whose image on the glas*... | |
| Isaac Nicholson Allen - 1843 - 522 páginas
...comparison of the tracery of Melrose Abbey to the work of a fairy, entwining willows and flowers, who " Framed a spell when the work was done And changed the willow wreaths to stone." The hill, on the other side of which the town of Kabul abuts, rose bold and rocky behind, with a summer-house,... | |
| Edward Shaw - 1843 - 216 páginas
...Some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight, the ozier wand, In many a prankish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone-" Those beauties of England's Gothic churches, as well as the more chaste and simple, and yet more enduring... | |
| Henry Rose - 1843 - 174 páginas
...some fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." Sir James Hall, however, was the great champion of this opinion, and wrote a volume to explain, illustrate,... | |
| 1844 - 788 páginas
...some fairy's hand, Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." SCOTT. Why, then, class among hase imitations the exquisite copies of stonework forms, in the equally,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...some fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then f R0. The silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet and many a saint, Whose imago on the glass... | |
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