 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 440 pages
...hair, And a hump upon his shoulder. And the loyal churchman strove in vain To mutter a Paternoster ; For he who writhed in mortal pain Was camped that...night on Bosworth plain — The cruel Duke of Glo'ster ! The corpulent Abbot knew full well The swelling form and the steaming smell ; Never a monk that wore... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 422 pages
...Of a stripling's agony ! Cold by this was the midnight air ; But the abbot's blood ran colder, When he saw a gasping knight lie there, With a gash beneath...who writhed in mortal pain Was camped that night on Bos worth plain — The cruel Duke of Glo'ster ! There was turning of keys, and creaking of locks,... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 658 pages
...heaved some piteous sighs, For oft he had blessed those deep blue eyes, The eyes of Mistress Shore I There was turning of keys, and creaking of locks, As he took forth a bait from his iron box. Many the cunning sportsman tried, Many he flung with a frown aside ; A minstrel's harp, and a miser's... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 682 pages
...heaved some piteous sighs, For oft he had blessed those deep blue eyes, The eyes of Mistress Shore ! There was turning of keys, and creaking of locks, As he took forth a bait from his iron box. Many the cunning sportsman tried, Many he flung with a frown aside; A minstrel's harp, and a miser's... | |
 | William George Waters - English literature - 1906 - 342 pages
...Of a stripling's agony. Cold by this, was the midnight air ; But the Abbot's blood ran colder, When he saw a gasping knight lie there, With a gash beneath...And the loyal churchman strove in vain To mutter a paternoster : For he who writhed in mortal pain, Was camped that night on Bosworth plain, The cruel... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1909 - 284 pages
...a stripling's agony! — Cold by this was the midnight air; But the Abbot's blood ran colder, When he saw a gasping Knight lie there, With a gash beneath...who writhed in mortal pain Was camped that night on Bos worth plain — The cruel Duke of Gloster ! There was turning of keys, and creaking of locks, As... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1909 - 284 pages
...their rest: You would have sworn, as you looked on them, He had fished in the flood with Ham and Shem ! There was turning of keys, and creaking of locks, As he took forth a bait from his iron box. Minnow or gentle, worm or fly, — It seemed not such to the Abbot's eye ; Gaily it glittered with... | |
 | Leopold Brandl - 1909 - 552 pages
...wirkungsvoll ist das Wiederholen derselben Verse als Einleitung zu jedem erneuten Fischen des Teufels. "There was turning of keys and creaking of locks As he took forth a bail from his iron box." Darstellung : so bei der Beschreibung der Angst des Abtes, als der Fischer... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - Literature - 1917 - 816 pages
...heaved some piteous sighs, For oft he had blessed those deep blue eyes, — The eyes of Mistress Shore! There was turning of keys and creaking of locks, As he took forth a bait from his iron box. Many the cunning sportsman tried, Many he flung with a frown aside: A minstrel's harp, and a miser's... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - American poetry - 1921 - 450 pages
...Of a stripling's agony! l Cold by this was the midnight air, But the Abbot's blood ran colder, When he saw a gasping knight lie there, With a gash beneath...mortal pain Was camped that night on Bosworth plain — 130 The cruel Duke of Gloster! There was turning of keys, and creaking of locks, As he took forth... | |
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Whep he saw a gasping knight lie there, With a gash beneath his clotted hair, And a hump upon his shoulder. And the loyal churchman strove in vain . To mutter a Pater... 
