 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...hand from her robe : her robe which was of the clouds of the desert.} MALLET'S William and Margaret. Her face was like an April morn, Clad in a wintry cloud, And clay-cold was her lily hand. That held her sable shroud. So shall the fairest face appear, When youth... | |
 | Charles Snart - 1808 - 506 pages
...hour, When night and morning meet ; In glided Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. Her face was like an April morn, Clad in a wintry cloud: And clay-cold was her lily hand, That held her sable shrowd. So shall the fairest face appear, When youth... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 422 pages
...a fine work which they attempt to improve. I remember one of those alterations. Mallet wrote, — " Her face was like an April morn, Clad in a wintry cloud." The pretended original has " Her face was like an April mom, Dimm'd by a scattering cloud." Griffith... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...solemn hour When night and morning meet, In glided Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. Her face was like an April morn Clad in a wintry cloud, And clay-cold was her lily hand That held her sable shroud. So shall the fairest face appear, When youth... | |
 | 1822 - 418 pages
...hour, When night and morning meet ; In glided Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. Her face was like an April morn Clad in a wintry cloud ; And clay-cold was her lily hand That held her sable shroud. So shall the fairest face appear When youth... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pages
...unequalled ; but they are frequently overcast with clouds, and chilled with rough wintry blasts — Her face was like an April morn, Clad in a wintry cloud ; says the beautiful balled of Margarets Ghost. This month gives the most perfect image of Spring;... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 pages
...midnight, And all were fast asleep, In glided Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. Her face was like an April morn Clad in a wintry cloud; And clay-cold was her lily hand ^ That held her sable shroud. So shall the fairest face appear When youth... | |
 | Heinrich Zschokke - 1829 - 224 pages
...hour, When night and morning meet, In glided Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. Her face was like an April morn, Clad in a wintry cloud ; And clay-cold was her lily hand, That held her sable shroud. So shall the fairest face appear, When youth... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pages
...hour When night and morning meet ; In glided Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. Her face was like an April morn, Clad in a wintry cloud ; And clay-cold was her lily hand, That held her sable shroud. So shall the fairest face appear, When youth... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...hour, When night and morning meet ; In glided Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. miniature of greatness absolute ! An heir of glory ! a frai clay-cold was her lily hand That held her eable shroud. So shall the fairest face appear When youth... | |
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So shall the fairest face appear, When youth and years are flown : Such is the robe that kings must wear, When death has reft their crown. 
