 | Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 340 pages
...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, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and... | |
 | 1806 - 502 pages
...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, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and... | |
 | Walter Scott - Clans - 1811 - 310 pages
...of shapely stone, By foilaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; * Cordelia, the projections from which the arches spring, usually cut into a fantastic face or mask.... | |
 | Walter Scott (sir).) - Borders Region (Scotland) - 1814 - 592 pages
...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 work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone." The roof of the chancel, of... | |
 | Joshua E. White - England - 1816 - 382 pages
...Scott: — " The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone; By foliage tracery combined, Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's...straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had twin'd; Then form'da spell, when the work, was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery comhined ; 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 when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and... | |
 | George Wilkins - Christianity - 1823 - 376 pages
...shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; One would have thought some fairy 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.' " " Here," said Duncan, stamping... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 412 pages
...of shapely stone, By foliage tracery combined: Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hum), '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." But as I can neither talk... | |
 | James Mitchell - Scotland - 1825 - 798 pages
...shapely stone, By foliated 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, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreattis to stone. Of the whole scene he thus... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1827 - 416 pages
...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, when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone. At the time of the Reformation... | |
| |
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... 
