 | 1823 - 400 pages
...the flock in woolly fold : Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told >, > • . His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seemed taking flight for heaven, without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith. The precautions to be... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...silent was the flock in woolly fold : Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seemed taking flight for Heaven, without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture while his prayer he saith. The precautions to be observed... | |
 | 1849 - 342 pages
...was the flock in woolly fold. Numb were the beadsman's fingers while he told His rosary, and white his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seemed taking flight for heaven without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayers he saith." KEATS. IT was a raw,... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 288 pages
...silent was the flock in woolly fold ; Numb were the beadsman's fingers while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense, from a censer old, Seemed taking flight for heaven without a death, Fast the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith. What a complete feeling... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1859 - 380 pages
...silent was the flock in woolly fold ; Numb were the beadsman's fingers while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seemed taking flight for heaven, without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith." But it needs no lengthened... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1864 - 298 pages
...silent was the flock in woolly fold ; Numb were the beadsman's ringers while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense, from a censer old, Seemed taking flight for heaven without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith. What a complete feeling... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...silent was the flock in woolly fold ; Numb were the beadsman's fingers while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seemed taking flight for heaven without a death Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith. ii. His prayer he saith,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...silent was the flock in woolly fold ; Numb were the Headman's fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seemed taking flight for heaven without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith. * * * Full on the casement... | |
 | Margaret T. Downing - 1867 - 394 pages
...silent was the flock in woolly fold ; Numb were the beadsman's fingers while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seemed taking flight for Heaven without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith. His prayer he faith, this... | |
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ST AGNES' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold; Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his... 
