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
| John Knox - 1851 - 216 páginas
...some fairy hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the ozier wand In many a freakish note had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." 3* Under the spot where the high altar stood is the grave of Alexander II., of Scotland. Here also... | |
| Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1836 - 690 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 glass... | |
| Andrew Dickinson - 1851 - 234 páginas
...fairy's Land 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then formed a spell, when the work was done. And changed the willow wreaths to stone !7' The beautifully fretted stone roof over the east end of the nave still remains, springing skyward... | |
| Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1852 - 476 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." Many of the Douglas family, as well as other noted persons in Scotch annals, including Alexander II.,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 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 glass... | |
| 1854 - 380 páginas
...some faery's hud, 'Twixt poplars straight the osier vrand, in many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." The figures and heads which abound throughout the ruin are some of them very beautiful, and others... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 584 páginas
...hand, 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, 1n. many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a siKil when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." The figures and heads which abound throughout the ruin are some of them very beautiful, and others... | |
| George King Matthews - 1854 - 264 páginas
...thought some fairy 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 wreath to stone." In the roof of the chancel, on the keystones, are some curiously carved figures ;... | |
| John Menzies (of Edinburgh.) - 1855 - 142 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.'' Lay of the Last Minstrel. The cloisters formed a quadrangle on the north-west side of the church ;... | |
| William Wells Brown - 1855 - 338 páginas
...some fairy's hand 'Twist 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." SIR WALTEK SCOTT. « HERE I am. within ten leagues of Paris, spending the time pleasantly in viewing... | |
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