Posthumous Poems of William Motherwell Now First Collected

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SPELL-BOUND KNIGHT. Lady, dar'st thou seek the shore Which ne'er woman's footstep bore; ? Where beneath yon rugged steep, Restless rolls the darksome deep ? Dar'st thou, though thy blood run chill, Thither speed at midnight still ? And when horror rules the sky, Raise for lover lost thy cry ? Dar'st...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SPELL-BOUND KNIGHT. Lady, dar'st thou seek the shore Which ne'er woman's footstep bore; ? Where beneath yon rugged steep, Restless rolls the darksome deep ? Dar'st thou, though thy blood run chill, Thither speed at midnight still ? And when horror rules the sky, Raise for lover lost thy cry ? Dar'st thou at that ghastiest hour Breathe the word of magic power ? Word that breaks the mermaid's spell, Which false lover knows too well ? When affrighted spectres rise 'Twixt pale floods and ebon skies, Dar'st thou, reft of maiden fear, Bid the Water-Witch appear ? When upon the sallow tide Pearly elfin boat does glide, When the mystic oar is heard, Like the wing of baleful bird ? Dar'st thou with a voice of might Call upon thy spell-bound knight ? When the shallop neareth land, Dar'st thou, with thy snow-white hand, Boldly on the warrior's breast Place the Cross by Churchman blest? ? When is done this work of peril, Thou hast won proud Ulster's Earl CRUXTOUN CASTLE. The reader will find a brief, but instructive, account of this relic of Baronial times ? which, at different periods, has been written Cruxtoun, Croestoun, and Crookston ? in a work entitled ' Views in Renfrewshire, ' by Philip A. Ramsay, one of the Poet's earliest and truest friends. Of the objects of antiquity remaining in Renfrewshire, Cruxtoun Castle, according to Mr. Ramsay, is, in point of interest, second only to the Abbey of Paisley. ' The ruins of this castle, ' he observes, ' occupy the summit of a wooded slope, overhanging the south bank of the White Cart, about three miles south-east from Paisley, and close to the spot where that river receives the waters of a stream called the Levern. The scenery in this neighbourhood is rich and varied, and although the eminence on which the Cas..