 | 1864 - 412 sider
...yon battlemented terrace of the ivied castle of Biri Porcerai, far, far in the distance — ' Where the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout the ruins gray;' one of the last of the Norman possessors of that high name, armed VOL. VII. — NO. 46. s cap... | |
 | Frederick Earle Emmons, Thomas Waterman Huntington - 1928 - 454 sider
...Abbey." If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; 60 Melrose Abbey For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold... | |
 | 1923 - 850 sider
...orphan boy. . . . Again, there is his description of Melrose Abbey: — If Iliou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight;...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. Where the broken arches are blank in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold... | |
 | Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 sider
...four-beat verse among the four-bar verses in their narrative poems; cp. : 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 ilout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white;... | |
 | Jerome Mitchell - 1987 - 284 sider
...Scott describes most memorably in the first verse-paragraph of Canto II: If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day (jild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel... | |
 | T. R. Malthus - 2004 - 372 sider
...grey, / Seem'd dimly huge the dark Abbaye.'; and Canto Second. Stanza 1: "1f thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, / Go visit it by the pale moonlight; / For the gay beams of lightsome day / Gild, hut to flout, the ruins grey. / When the broken arches are black in night, / And each shafted oriel... | |
 | Ina Ferris - 2002 - 223 sider
...day") into an interior ruin painting of glimmering silver and black arches: When the broken arches arc 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... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 2003 - 258 sider
...(In each of these passages, the Minstrel sings of himself) CANTO SECOND i If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight;...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem fram'd of ebon and ivory; When... | |
 | Helen Groth - 2003 - 266 sider
...lines of Scott's description of Melrose: If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright. Go visit it by pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day,...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When... | |
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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... 
