 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 and years are flown : Such...  Poemata Latine partim reddita, partim scripta - Page 22by Vincent Bourne - 1808 - 286 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 pages
...labour of love. WILLIAM AND MARGARET.1 "Twas at the silent 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.... | |
 | English poetry - 1877 - 394 pages
...midnight, And all were fast asleep, &c.1 'TwAs at the silent 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, 5 Clad in a wintry cloud : And clay-cold was her lily hand, That held her sable shrowd.... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1877 - 326 pages
...W. Cowper , TI * WILLIAM AND MARGARET TWAS at the silent, 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.... | |
 | John Ross - 1878 - 786 pages
...advancement. WILLIAM AND MARGARET. i. 'Twas at the silent solemn hoar, 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.... | |
 | John Ross - 1878 - 816 pages
...his advancement. WILLIAM AND MARGARET. 'Twas at the silent 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.... | |
 | 1880 - 308 pages
...contradicted it by adding his own initials at the end of his version. The old ballad commences : When all was wrapt in dark midnight, And all were fast...Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. Malloch retained the third and fourth lines, changing the first and second to : 'Twas at the fearful... | |
 | 1880 - 308 pages
...contradicted it by adding his own initials at the end of his version. The old ballad commences : 8 When all was wrapt in dark midnight, And all were fast...Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. Malloch retained the third and fourth lines, changing the first and second to : 'Twas at the fearful... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1880 - 1104 pages
...in a style dramatic and yet touchingly pathetic : " When all was wrapt in dark midnight, And all was 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.... | |
 | English poetry - 1880 - 486 pages
...poem, which was written many years ago." 'TWAS at the silent 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 shrowd.... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...JOHN В т ROM. WILLIAM AND MARGARET. 'TWAS at the silent, solemn hour, When night and morning meet; hough I am, not wholly so, Since quicken'd by Thy breath an April morn, Clad in a wintry cloud ; And clay-cold was her lily hand, That held her sable shroud.... | |
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