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" Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon ; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory,... "
The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats: Complete in One Volume - Page 46
by Mary Botham Howitt - 1840 - 522 pages
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“The” Spirit of the Age, Or Contemporary Portraits

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 480 pages
...the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest,...amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint : She secm'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven : — Porphyro grew faint : She knelt,...
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The every-day book, or, The guide to the year

William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...knelt fur Heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her si] ver Day. This was a high festival in England formerly....thorn, there grew in the abbey churchyard of Glastonbu : — • »•*•* • Her vespers done Of all its wreathed pearls fcer hair she frees ; Unclasps...
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The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits, Volumes 1-2

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1825 - 482 pages
...the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon ; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together...silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, hke a saint : She sccrn'da splendid angel, newly drcst, Save wings, for heaven : — Porphyro grew...
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The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits ...

William Hazlitt - 1902 - 558 pages
...on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, u 290 THE SPIRIT OF THE AGfc. And on her hair a glory, like a saint : She seem'da...splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven : — Porphyro grew faint : She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. " Anon his heart...
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The Every Day Book, Or, A Guide to the Year: Describing the ..., Volume 1

William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace des of angels ; with the breaking of the clouds, discovering...palace of the sun, in double and treble prospects, to : — • • Her vespers done Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps her warmedjewels...
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A Ramble Among the Musicians of Germany, Giving Some Account of the Operas ...

Edward Holmes - Music - 1828 - 308 pages
...exquisitely pictured the effect in the girl who has knelt " to ask Heaven's grace and boon," " Rose bloom fell on her hands together prest, And on her silver...soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory like a saint." A Gothic cathedral is to the little children in a city like a venerable kind of elderly acquaintance;...
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Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries: With Recollections of ..., Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - Authors - 1828 - 512 pages
...breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon ; Rose bloom fell on her hands, together press'd, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her...glory, like a saint : She seem'da splendid angel, newly dress'd, Save wings, for heaven." The whole volume is worthy of this passage. Mr. Keats is no half-painter,...
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The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of ..., Volume 1

William Hone - Days - 1830 - 878 pages
...breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon , Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together jircst, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her...splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for Heaven : — — ^— — — — — ^— Her vespers done Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1832 - 652 pages
...youthful fair, kneeling to ask heaven's grace, so beautifully expressed by the poet, — Rose bloom fell on her hands together prest, And on her silver...soft amethyst And on her hair a glory like a saint. ' How the heavenly tones in solemn grandeur roll along ! It is only upon the continent that we can...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 21

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1832 - 648 pages
...youthful fair, kneeling to ask heaven's grace, so beautifully expressed by the poet, — Rose bloom fell on her hands together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst Ала on her hair a glory like a saint. " How the heavenly tones in solemn grandeur roll along ! It...
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