American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . Decorated Verse. Drawn by Taylor. The lady, as- many a night, steeped pale in the light Of the stars, when the bells and clocksHad ceased in the towers, and the sound of the hours Was eddying about in the rocks,Deep-sunken in bristling broidery between the black oak Fiends sat she. The one showing her statuesque, calm, pure face, marble in death; and that depicting how the EarlFumed and fret, and raved and swore,Pacing up and down the chamber floor,And tearing his black beard as he went,In the fit of his sullen discontent
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . Decorated Verse. Drawn by Taylor. The lady, as- many a night, steeped pale in the light Of the stars, when the bells and clocksHad ceased in the towers, and the sound of the hours Was eddying about in the rocks,Deep-sunken in bristling broidery between the black oak Fiends sat she. The one showing her statuesque, calm, pure face, marble in death; and that depicting how the EarlFumed and fret, and raved and swore,Pacing up and down the chamber floor,And tearing his black beard as he went,In the fit of his sullen discontent. AMERICAN ART And the Seneschal said it was fearful to hear him;And not even the weather-worn Warden went near him ;And the shock-headed pages huddled anear,And bit their white lips till they bled for fear. 315. Dreaming. Drawn by Taylor. As examples of the artists ability to render equally well other phases of the poem, it is worthnoting the half-timbered architecture in the background of The Great South Court picture; thelovely little moonlit landscape; and the design accompanying the lines —
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