 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 932 trang
...the middle of the fourteenth century. Of it may be said: — " Thou wouldst have thought some fairy hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." • Browne's History of the Metropolitan Church of St Peter, York, 1839. The usual entrance is on the... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 trang
...foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined; Then framed...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... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1836 - 690 trang
...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...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... | |
 | 1851 - 704 trang
...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...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." The original beautifully fretted and sculptured stone roof of the east end of the chancel is still... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 trang
...combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand Twiit poplars straight the ozier wand, In mauy a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell,...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... | |
 | John Knox - 1851 - 216 trang
...wouldst have thought some fairy hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the ozier wand In many a freakish note had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." 3* Under the spot where the high altar stood is the grave of Alexander II., of Scotland. Here also... | |
 | Andrew Dickinson - 1851 - 234 trang
...shafts of shapely stone, By foliage tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's Land '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 !7' The beautifully... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 trang
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1852 - 476 trang
...enchain the beholder, as it were some fairy creation, and would justify the verse of Sir Walter. " Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." Many of the Douglas family, as well as other noted persons in Scotch annals, including Alexander II.,... | |
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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,... 
