 | 1842 - 504 pages
...ambition, lowly laid! 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 The silver light so pale and faint, Show'd many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pages
...where his tomh is atill shotrn. CAWTOtt] LAST MINSTREL. By foliaged tracery comhined; Thou would' st have thought some fairy's hand, Twixt poplars straight,...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*... | |
 | Edward Shaw - 1843 - 216 pages
...arches, which seem as if " 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... | |
 | Isaac Nicholson Allen - 1843 - 522 pages
...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,... | |
 | Henry Rose - 1843 - 174 pages
...church, he says, " The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliagcd tracery combined ; 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 changed... | |
 | 1844 - 788 pages
...moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliage tracery comhined. Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand, Twixt...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,... | |
 | James Miller - 1844 - 536 pages
...with that of many a heroic Douglas,* and where " Througb slender shafts of shapely stone, By foilaged tracery combined, Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's...poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish note had twined ; , Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreathes to... | |
 | James Miller - 1844 - 540 pages
...wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish note had twined; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreathes to stone." Lay qf the Lust Miuitrel, There are no details of what the fleet and the... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...lowly laid ! 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...nad and fair ! The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged eded not ; his eyes Were with his heart, and that ivas far away : He recked not of the life ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And... | |
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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,... 
