William Julius Mickle
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William Julius Mickle (1735 - 1788) was a Scottish poet.
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- The dews of summer nights did fall,
The moon, sweet regent of the sky,
Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall
And many an oak that grew thereby.- Cumnor Hall (1784), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Jove, thou regent of the skies", Alexander Pope, The Odyssey, book ii, line 42; "Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night", John Gay, Trivia, book iii; "And hail their queen, fair regent of the night", Charles Darwin, The Botanic Garden, part i, canto ii, line 90.
- For there's nae luck about the house,
There's nae luck at a';
There's little pleasure in the house
When our gudeman's awa'.- The Mariner's Wife, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- His very foot has music in't
As he comes up the stairs.- The Mariner's Wife, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
