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
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 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... | |
| 1856 - 704 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 carved figures and heads which abound throughout the ruin are many of them very curious. There... | |
| Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 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 fault, Show'd many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass... | |
| Andrew Dickinson - 1856 - 234 páginas
...fairy's hand *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 !" The beautifully fretted stone roof over the east end of the nave still remains, springing skyward... | |
| James Walter Wall - 1856 - 336 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, tP atone," Melrose Abbey was founded by David I., of Scotland, somewhere in the year 1136. The English... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 páginas
...some fairy's hand 'Twist 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, Showed many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass... | |
| English poetry - 1857 - 334 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, Showed many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass... | |
| Oliver Prescott Hiller - 1857 - 388 páginas
...thought some fairy 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." * Through the smaller windows, also, on the east, the moon's rays streamed, throwing on the opposite... | |
| 1857 - 834 páginas
...if some fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight the ozler wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreath to etone." Returning to Edinburgh, we had a fresh interest in studying out ita antiquities,... | |
| William C. Stewart - 1857 - 428 páginas
...stone into such forms, or rather that some fairy had twined ozier wands through poplars — " Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreath to stone." But everybody has the beautiful and weird scene at Melrose in the " Lay of the Last... | |
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