 When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the...  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Страница 65по Walter Scott - 1857Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1842 - 504 страници
...died on the 2Ist of Septemher, I832. SCOTT. MELROSE ABBEY. If thou wouldst view fair Melrosc aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 страници
...obtained from the south-east corner of the churchyard ; but " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
 | 1842 - 480 страници
...died on the 2lst of September, 1832. SCOTT. MELROSE ABBEY. If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the rums grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 страници
...wouldst view fair Melrose aright, For the gay beams of lightsome day Go visit it by the pale moon-light; Gild but to flout the ruins gray. When the broken...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory; And the... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - 1843 - 568 страници
...the spirit of past times, in the ruins of Melrose Abbey :— ' If you would view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams...lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray.' And surely if Melrose, with all the associations of romantic history clinging to its relicts, and interwoven... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 страници
...the gay heams of lightsome day Gild, hut to flout, the ruins gray. When the hroken archea ;ir- hlack in night) And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When huttress and huttress, alternately, Seem framed of ehon and ivory; When... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 страници
...effect of the picture which he presents to the eye : — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight : For the gay beams...tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem fram'd of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 страници
...forced them still to rise. CRABBE. MELROSE ABBEY AS IT IS. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay beams...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 страници
...instantly became popular : — [Description of Mdrose А bbry.~[ If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, or Adoration 'mong the leaves The gale his peace reports. ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 страници
...instantly became popular : — [Description of Mdrox Abbey."} If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, de ; Why think we these less pleasing to behold Than dreary ni«ht, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the... | |
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