 | Philip Dwyer - Church history - 1878 - 630 pages
...secondly, how to prevent the woman from gaining possession. "^For, legends hint/' That had the rnaid Till morning's light delayed, And given the Saint...one rosy smile, She ne'er had left his lonely isle. For more on this and other localities the Topography of parishes in the Appendix must be consulted.... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1881 - 900 pages
...of thy sod to taint.' The Lady's prayer Senanus spurn d ; The winds blew fresh, the bark return'd ;, But legends hint, that had the maid Till morning's...one rosy smile, She ne'er had left his lonely isle. HOW DEAR TO ME THE HOUR. How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, And sunbeams melt along the silent... | |
 | Ireland - 1881 - 222 pages
...blew fresh, and the bark return'd ; But legends hint, that had the maid Till morning's light delay'd, And given the saint one rosy smile, She ne'er had left his lonely isle." Kilrush is a pretty and favourite sunimer resort, affording fine views of the Shannon, which is here... | |
 | Frances Murray - Colonsay (Scotland) - 1887 - 216 pages
...Columba spurned, The wind blew fresh, the bark returned, But legends hint, that had the maid Till morning light delayed, And given the Saint one rosy smile, She ne'er had left his lonely isle. Although on a clear day we could see the flat land of Iona, lying like a cloud upon the horizon behind... | |
 | William Frederick Wakeman - Ireland - 1891 - 522 pages
...lady's prayer Senanus spurned ; The wind blew fresh, nnd the barque returned-^. But legends whisper, had the maid Till morning's light delayed, And given the saint one rosy smile, She ne'er had left that holy isle. From Kilrush the tourist can proceed to Limerick by the steamer which plies between... | |
 | Cork Historical and Archaeological Society - Cork (Ireland : County) - 1896 - 556 pages
...inexorably the fair Cannera who came after himself. " But legends hint that had the maid Till morning light delayed, And given the saint one rosy smile, She ne'er had left his lonely isle." This may be so, but I am told that if any young lady disobeys the saint's injunction and lands on the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish poetry - 1895 - 838 pages
...billows dark: " I come with humble heart to share "Thy morn and evening prayer; " Nor mine the feet, oh ! holy Saint, " The brightness of thy sod to taint."...one rosy smile, She ne'er had left his lonely isle. NE'ER ASK THE HOUR. NE'ER ask the hour — what is it to us How Time deals out his treasures? The golden... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Ireland - 1895 - 786 pages
...inexorably hunted away the fair sex : — ' But legends hint that had the maid Till morning light delay'd, And given the saint one rosy smile, She ne'er had left his lonely isle.' The exclusion of women from so-called sacred localities is a practice far older than Christianity.... | |
 | Archaeology - 1898 - 292 pages
...inexorably hunted away the fair sex — " But legends hint that had the maid Till morning light delay'd, And given the Saint one rosy smile, She ne'er had left his lonely isle." Writers, almost without exception, depict the early Irish saints as of most exemplary character. Whether... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Electronic books - 1902 - 466 pages
...inexorably hunted away the fair sex — " But legends hint that had the maid Till morning light delay'd, And given the saint one rosy smile, She ne'er had left his lonely isle." St. Columbkille seems likewise to have been credited with a horror of women. He detested even cows... | |
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Thy morn and evening prayer ; Nor mine the feet, oh ! holy Saint, The brightness of thy sod to taint. 
