 | 1856 - Liczba stron: 704
...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.' The carved figures and heads which abound throughout the ruin are many of them very curious. There... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - Liczba stron: 776
...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 the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and fault, Show'd many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass... | |
 | James Walter Wall - 1856 - Liczba stron: 336
...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, tP atone," Melrose Abbey was founded by David I., of Scotland, somewhere in the year 1136. The English... | |
 | Andrew Dickinson - 1856 - Liczba stron: 234
...fairy's hand *Twixt 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 beautifully fretted stone roof over the east end of the nave still remains, springing skyward... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - Liczba stron: 334
...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, Whose image on the glass... | |
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - 1857 - Liczba stron: 388
...'Hum wouldst have thought some fairy 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." * Through the smaller windows, also, on the east, the moon's rays streamed, throwing on the opposite... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - Liczba stron: 444
...Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twist 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, Whose image on the glass... | |
 | 1857 - Liczba stron: 834
...eastern window looks " As if some fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight the ozler wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreath to etone." Returning to Edinburgh, we had a fresh interest in studying out ita antiquities,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1857 - Liczba stron: 612
...Thou wouldsthavc thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wound In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone." Snow Hill is the name of another very beautiful stalagmite of nearly equal... | |
 | William C. Stewart - 1857 - Liczba stron: 428
...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... | |
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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... 
