Restormel: A Legend of Piers Gaveston. The Patriot Priest, and Other VersesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1875 - 212 pages |
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... Gascon's laugh Rang like a well - plied quarterstaff On some hard pate at Lammas fair , Provoking growls as from a bear . They seem'd to ride for life or death , And paused but seldom to take breath . At length towards a moated Keep ...
... Gascon's laugh Rang like a well - plied quarterstaff On some hard pate at Lammas fair , Provoking growls as from a bear . They seem'd to ride for life or death , And paused but seldom to take breath . At length towards a moated Keep ...
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... aisle ; And , wafted through the stilly air , Came sounds of psalmody and prayer . Check'd was the mirth of Knight and Squire , Some of them chanted with the choir , And the blithe Gascon proved that he Was versed in 20 RESTORMEL .
... aisle ; And , wafted through the stilly air , Came sounds of psalmody and prayer . Check'd was the mirth of Knight and Squire , Some of them chanted with the choir , And the blithe Gascon proved that he Was versed in 20 RESTORMEL .
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... Gascon proved that he Was versed in sacred harmony , And sweetly , when the day grew dim , As monk could sing the vesper hymn ; Nay , so could modulate his tones Either at matins or at nones , That ' mid a saintly sisterhood He for a ...
... Gascon proved that he Was versed in sacred harmony , And sweetly , when the day grew dim , As monk could sing the vesper hymn ; Nay , so could modulate his tones Either at matins or at nones , That ' mid a saintly sisterhood He for a ...
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... 'd , and walk'd upside ; The Gascon had a ghastly hue , But grand as Hamlet's sire withdrew ; The rest like goblins stalk'd behind , And , least and last , I tried to find An exit from the awful spot , But where I 26 RESTORMEL .
... 'd , and walk'd upside ; The Gascon had a ghastly hue , But grand as Hamlet's sire withdrew ; The rest like goblins stalk'd behind , And , least and last , I tried to find An exit from the awful spot , But where I 26 RESTORMEL .
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... Gascon's voice rang clear , As they went hunting the red deer With hounds almost as large as stags , Through fern and heather , down the crags , Along the springy moorland sweeping , Then over leagues of boulders leaping ; Fording the ...
... Gascon's voice rang clear , As they went hunting the red deer With hounds almost as large as stags , Through fern and heather , down the crags , Along the springy moorland sweeping , Then over leagues of boulders leaping ; Fording the ...
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bird Black Dog bow'd bower breath bright call'd CANTO Castle cell chambers Chantry Owl clouds Cornish Cornwall Cornwall's crimson dance Davies Gilbert death deep Duke of Cornwall Earl Earl of Cornwall Enrico Tazzoli fair feet fill'd Fowey friends Gascon gleam grace hath hear heard heart Heaven Heigh-ho hill honour horse hound hour Ina's Coombe Italian King Ladies lance land Lanlivery laugh'd Launceston lips lofty look'd Lostwithiel lute Margaret de Clare ne'er night o'er Ocean once pass'd PATRIOT PRIEST Piers Gaveston pour'd proved rampart reach'd Red Deer Restormel rhyme roar rose Saint Saint Neot seem'd shore show'd sigh sing smile song soon soul sound star steed stood strain sweet Table Round tears tell thou thought tones town trout turn'd twas underground My Hall VALE OF LANHERNE verse voice wall warders Warwick Warwick Castle weep wild wine words
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Page 3 - O'er Mawgan flames his golden crest, Boughtor's dark brow is helm'd with fire, And the bluff headlands of Pentire Like shields emboss'd with silver glow. Glistening and murmuring as they flow, Camel and Fowey * seek different shores ; And North and South the eye explores Two spreading seas of purple sheen, That blend with Heaven's own depths serene.
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