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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, like... "
Chambers's Pocket Miscellany - Page 70
1854
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The Music of Nature

William Gadiner - 1841 - 508 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 enjoy...
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the music of nature

william gardiner - 1841 - 500 pages
...heaven's grace, — so beautifully expressed by the poet, — Rose bloom fell on her hands together prcst, And on her silver cross 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 enjoy...
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Domestic Architecture: Containing a History of the Science, and the ...

Richard Brown (architect.) - Architecture, Domestic - 1841 - 618 pages
...in all the mansions that I have seen, this vitrum appears an opaque and coloured paste. — (A.) " Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fine breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon ; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together...
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Essays

Leigh Hunt - 1841 - 378 pages
...saints," and its 'scutcheons"blushing with the blood of queens ?" But we must not stop the reader :— Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fab? breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands together prest,...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 8

1842 - 818 pages
...of St. Agnes. VOL. VIII— 6 a stained glass-window, is acknowledged to be uni vailed : Full on the casement shone the wintry moon. And threw warm gules...amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint : She seem'da splendid angel, newly drcst, Save wings, for heaven. What poet ever described a maiden unrobing...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 6

Christianity - 1843 - 744 pages
...twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings. xxv. " Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw...amethyst, 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...
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The Social History of Great Britain During the Reigns of the ..., Volume 1

William Goodman - Great Britain - 1843 - 342 pages
...Heaven's grace, so beautifully expressed by the poet :"| " Rose bloom fell on her hands together press'd, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory like a saint." KEAT'S Eve of St. Agnes. Sorrowfully, but truly, may the learned Digby say, " Gothic * Rob Roy. t Gardiner,...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blushed with blood of queens and kings. ouldst smile no more ! And still upon that face I...speak — thou dost not say What thou ne'er Irft'st ; Porphyre grew faint : She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. [Hymn to Pan.] [From...
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The New Mirror, Volume 1

George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 500 pages
...suhdued glow of warm sunlight which streamed in through the great window of the chapel. " Rosc-hlooш fell on her hands together prest ; And on her silver cross soft amethyst ; And on her ha,ra glory l,ke a sшnt : She seemed n splend,d иngel, newly drest, Save wings, tor heaven." Immediately...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 7

American literature - 1846 - 602 pages
...twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blushed with blood of queens and kings, 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 ; Kose-bloom fell on her hands,...
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