 | 1829 - 550 pages
...slender shafts of shapely stone By fulinge tracery combined ; Thou wouklst havo thought some fairy's 'Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then formed a spell, when the work waa done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light so... | |
 | John Britton, Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - 1829 - 368 pages
...are so gracefully and airily enwreathed, that, in our moonlight imaginings, we might almost think " Some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot hath twined ; Then framed a spell, where the work was done, And changed the willow-wreathes to stone."... | |
 | 1829 - 572 pages
...slender shafts of shapely stone By foliage tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's bud Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then formed a spell, when the work waa done, And changed the willow wreathe to stone. The silver light so... | |
 | 1829 - 740 pages
...around, Seem'd bundles of lances which garlands had bound." And thus he describes the foliaged window : " Thou would'st have thought some Fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier hand In many a freakish knot had twin'd, Then fram'da spell when the work was done, And chang'd the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...wouldst have thought some fairy's liand Tviit poplars straight the oxierwand, ID many * freakish kuot, 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, Sbow'd many a prophet, and many a saint,... | |
 | 1830 - 194 pages
...of shapely stone; By foliage tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand "J'wixt 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 silver light,... | |
 | Jacob Green - 1831 - 298 pages
...following lines: — The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone By foliage tracery combined; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's...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 silver light so... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1831 - 386 pages
...thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the ozier wand In many a freakish knot had twin'd ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." The fourth and last theory is one highly flattering to our national feelings — but I fear it " wants... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1831 - 400 pages
...of Melrose. " 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 ozier wand In many a freakish knot had twin'd ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1832 - 356 pages
...theory : — "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 ozier wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed... | |
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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,... 
