 Folk say, a wizard to a northern king At Christmas-tide such wondrous things did show That through one window men beheld the spring, And through another saw the summer glow, And through a third the fruited vines a-row, While still, unheard, but in its...  The Brotherhood of Letters - Page 158by John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 271 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Morris - 1886 - 348 pages
...too importunate To those who in the sleepy region stay, -.<- Lulled by the singer of an empty day. Folk say, a wizard to a northern king At Christmas-tide...a-row, While still, unheard, but in its wonted way, -.C Piped the drear wind of that December day. So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read... | |
 | William Morris - 1888 - 270 pages
...tale not too importunate To those who in the sleepy region stay, Lulled by the singer of an empty day. Folk say, a wizard to a northern king At Christmas-tide...wonted way, Piped the drear wind of that December day. So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy... | |
 | 1890 - 302 pages
...of this passage compare the following lines from the Introduction to Morris' Earthly Paradise — ' Folk say, a wizard to a northern king, At Christmas-tide...wonted way, Piped the drear wind of that December day. So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy... | |
 | William Morris - 1890 - 472 pages
...mindful that the sweet days die—Remember me a little then I pray, The idle singer of an empty day. Folk say, a wizard to a northern king At Christmas-tide...glow, And through a third the fruited vines a-row, mile still, unheard, but in its wonted way, Piped the drear wind of that December day. The heavy trouble,... | |
 | Richard Buchholz - 1890 - 636 pages
...jenem Zauberer, welcher (I 2) to a northern king At Christmas-tide such wondrous thing» did shou; That through one window men beheld the spring, And through another saw the summer gloic, And through a third the fruited vines ci-rotr, While still, unheard, but in its wonted icai/,... | |
 | Julius Riegel - 1890 - 90 pages
...window men beheld the spring, And through anotlier saiv the summer glow, And through a third the fntited vines a-row, While still, unheard, but in its wonted way, Piped the drear loind of that December day. Die Verknüpfung der Erzählungen erinnert uns an Boccaccio und Chaucer.... | |
 | 1893 - 322 pages
...tale not too importunate To those who in the sleepy region stay, Lulled by the singer of an empty day. And through another saw the summer glow, And through...wonted way, Piped the drear wind of that December day. So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy... | |
 | Alexander Nicolas De Menil - 1897 - 572 pages
...things did show. That weighs us down who live and That through one window men beearn our bread, held the spring, And through another saw the summer glow. And through a third the fruitt-d vines a-row, While still unheard, hut in its wonted way, Piped the drear wind of that December... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 810 pages
...tale not too importunate To those who in the sleepy region stay, Lull'd by the singer of an empty day. Folk say, a wizard to a northern king At Christmas-tide...a-row, While still, unheard, but in its wonted way, Pip'd the drear wind of that December day. So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 802 pages
...against the ivory 404 4°5 To those who in the sleepy region stay, Lull'd by the singer of an empty day. Folk say, a wizard to a northern king At Christmas-tide...through one window men beheld the spring, And through auother saw the summer glow, And through a third the fruited vines a-row, While still, unheard, but... | |
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