 | 1872 - 566 pages
...where in old days stained glass represented the Archangel : " Full in the midst, his Cross of fied Triumphant Michael brandished, And trampled the apostate's...The moonbeam kissed the holy pane, And threw on the parement a bloody stain." Here he was buried — " That his patron's Cross might over him wave, And... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1872 - 396 pages
...light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet and many a saint, 1 V." — I— LLIEI rIILLHEL.I LI Whose image on the glass was dyed ; Full in the midst, his Cross of Red ;\ u H [Sir WALTER SCOTT, born 1771; died 1832. Our extract is from his stirring ballad-poem of " The... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...a spell, when the work was done. And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale n Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'T was Christmas...year. SIR WALTER SCOTT. DIVINA COMMEDIA. OFT have bloody stain. SIR WALTER SCOTT. CHRISTMAS IN OLDEN TIME. HEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 pages
...spell, when the work was done, And chang'd the willow's wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet and many a saint,...kissed the holy pane, And threw on the pavement a bloody stain. PATEIOTISM. BY SCOTT. BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Show'd e ; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line ! kiss'd the holy pane, And threw on the pavement a bloody stain. Sir W. Scott.— Born 1771, Died 1832.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1874 - 216 pages
...neck-verse at Hairibee. (d) Cliffs, which, for many a later year, The warbling Doric reed shall hear. (e) Full in the midst, his Cross of Red Triumphant Michael...brandished, And trampled the Apostate's pride. (/) The words that cleft Eildon hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone. (g) The blood of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1874 - 660 pages
...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 was dyed ; Pull in the midst, his Cross of Red Triumphant Michael brandished, And trampled the Apostate's pride.... | |
 | 1876 - 292 pages
...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,...kissed the holy pane, And threw on the pavement a bloody stain. ***** With beating heart to the task he went; His sinewy frame o'er the gravestone bent,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Shewed glory ! The passage in the Edinburgh Annual Register...killed in battle, he wished to be buried where he f bloody stain. Love of Country. Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, 624 025 Showed many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image...the Apostate's pride. The moonbeam kissed the holy pnne, And threw on the pavement a bloody stain. SIR WALTER SCOTT. ON ROUSSEAU'S ISLE. ALONE and sad... | |
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Showed many a prophet, and 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. The moon-beam kissed the holy pane, And threw on the pavement a bloody stain. 
