 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pàgines
...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, Shewed many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was dyed ; Full in the midst, his... | |
 | 1844 - 788 pàgines
...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." SCOTT. Why, then, class among hase imitations the exquisite copies of stonework forms, in the equally,... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - 1845 - 408 pàgines
...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 etone." Within the chancel, a slab of dark green marble marks the spot where it is believed that King... | |
 | Jean Froissart - 1847 - 378 pàgines
...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...prophet, many a saint, Whose image on the glass was dyed. Full in the midst, his cross of red Triumphant Michael brandished, And trampled the Apostate's pride.... | |
 | 1847 - 796 pàgines
...fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplar straight, the osier 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 !' After this manner, I say, were chapels constructed of old, as witness that of Henry the Seventh... | |
 | Gallery - 1848 - 306 pàgines
...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 view of an ancient church like this, forcibly suggests to the mind of the spectator Mrs. Hemans's noble... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 408 pàgines
...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 light ornamental buttresses, or projections, often ranged in parallel rows, also characterised the... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1849 - 528 pàgines
...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." And this testimony is the more valuable, as it is clear that the great poet took a very different view... | |
 | 1854 - 428 pàgines
...fairy's hand 'Twist poplan straight tho osier wanJ In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to itone. But descriptions of buildings, however beautiful they may be, are at best uninteresting ; and... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pàgines
...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, Shewed many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was dyed ; Full in the midst, his... | |
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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,... 
