 | 1792 - 532 pages
...the wild wind» beat With hollow bodings round your ancients walls: And Pity, at the dark and itormy hour Of midnight, when the moon is hid on high, Keeps her lone watch upon the topmoft tower, And turns her ear to each expiring cry ; Plell if her aid Come fainting wretch might... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1798 - 328 pages
...With hollow hodings round your ancient: walls ; And Pity, at the dark and ftormy hour Of miunight, when the moon is hid on high, Keeps her lone watch upon the topmoft tow'r, And tums her car to each expiring cry ; Bleft if her aid feme tainting wretch might... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1800 - 216 pages
...fix'd her chosen seat, Oft list'ning tearful when the wild winds beat With hollow bodings round your ancient walls; And Pity, at the dark and stormy hour...Blest if her aid some fainting wretch might save, SONNET III. RIVER WENSBECK. WHILE slowly wanders thy sequester'd stream, WENSBECK! the mossy-scatter'd... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - English poetry - 1805 - 216 pages
...fix'd her chosen seat, Oft listening tearful when the wild winds beat With hollow bodings round your ancient walls; And Pity, at the dark and stormy hour...topmost tow'r, And turns her ear to each expiring cry; SONNET III. RIVER WENSBECK. \V HILE slowly wanders thy sequester'd stream, WENSBECK! the mossy-scatter'd... | |
 | English literature - 1794 - 802 pages
...when the wild With hollow bodings lound your ancient walls : And pity, at the dark and ftormy hoar Of midnight, when the moon is hid on high, Keeps her lone watch upon the topmc-S tow'r, And turns her ear to each expiring cry i" [licit if her aid fome fainting wretch might... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1809 - 414 pages
...fixed her chosen seat, Oft list'ning, tearful, when the wild winds bent With hollow bodinss round your ancient walls: And Pity, at the dark and stormy hour Of midnight, when the moon is hid on hirfi, Keeps her lone watch upon the topmost tow'r, ( And turns her ear to each expiring cry; Blest... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 432 pages
...fixed her chosen seat, Oft list'ning tearful when the wild winds beat, With hollow bodings, round your ancient walls ; And Pity, at the dark and stormy hour...her lone watch upon the topmost tow'r, And turns her car to each expiring cry ; Blest if her aid some fainting wretch might save, And snatch him cold and... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 286 pages
...her chosen seat; Oft listening tearful when the wild winds beat With hollow bodings round yon anticnt Walls. And Pity, at the dark and stormy hour Of Midnight,...hid on high, Keeps her lone watch upon the top-most tower And turns her ear to each expiring cry ; Blest if her aid some fainting wretch might save, And... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...lisl'ning fearful, when tlie wild waves beat, With hollow codings, round your apcien'. walls! And PITV, at the dark and stormy hour Of midnight, when the...topmost tow'r. And turns her ear to each expiring cry ; Bless'd if her aid some fainting wretch might save, And snatch him, cold and speechless, from the... | |
 | William Woolnoth - 1823 - 346 pages
...fixed her chosen seat, Oft listening fearful when the wild winds beat With hollow bodings round your ancient walls : And Pity, at the dark and stormy hour...hid on high, Keeps her lone watch upon the topmost tower ; And turns her ear to each expiring cry ; Blest if her aid some fainting wretch might save,... | |
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Here charity hath fix'd her chosen seat, Oft listening tearful when the wild winds beat, With hollow bodings round your ancient walls : And pity, at the dark and stormy hour Of midnight, when the moon is hid on high, Keeps her lone watch upon the topmost... 
