 | D C. Maccarthy - 1858 - 324 páginas
...would'st have thought some fairy's hand, ' Twixt poplar 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." XXX. SELKIRKSHIRE. Pop. 10,582. Ar. 264 sq. ms. This county is situated in the centre of the Southern... | |
 | James Glass Bertram - 1858 - 218 páginas
...wrought 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 páginas
...Thou wouldst have thought 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 clianged thu willow-wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Show'd many a prophet, and... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 páginas
...Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish him — But little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep...on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But h The silver light, so pale and faint, Shewed many a prophet and many a saint, Whose image on the glass... | |
 | 1876 - 312 páginas
...Thou wouldst have 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 silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass... | |
 | Hildebrand - 1876 - 380 páginas
...would'st have thought 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, Shew'd many a prophet, and many a saint,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 páginas
...Thou wouldst have 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 silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a. prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 688 páginas
...would'st have thought 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,... | |
 | William Hutton - 1878 - 408 páginas
...Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freaking knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." We would love to linger here till moonlight, if other scenes did not extend a pressing invitation to... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1878 - 140 páginas
...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, when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone. 120 The silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet, and many a... | |
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The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined; Then framed a spell, when the... 
