 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 Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem - Side 36af Walter Scott - 1805 - 319 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Charles Casey - 1852 - 334 sider
...there is as much truth as beauty in Walter Scott's directions for viewing Old Melrose Abbey : — " Then go — but go alone — the while ; Then view...David's ruined pile, And, home returning, soothly swear, That never was scene so sad, so lair." Not until the fourth day, when I had been on the Canadian side,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 sider
...oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed...— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile; And, home returning, soothly sweur, Was never scene so sad and fair ! Tlie tame. LOVE... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 sider
...buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; Wn filver edges the imagery, Anl the «rolls that teach thee to live and die ;' When distant Tweed...rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Tben go — but go alone the while — Than view St. David's ruin'd pile ;* And, bome returning, soothly... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 348 sider
...the daytime we had criticised Walter Scott's moonlight description in the lines which say, — " The distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave." " We hear nothing of the Tweed, at any rate," said we ; " that must be a poetic license." But now at... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1888 - 682 sider
...oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed...grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view Saint David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair ! n.... | |
 | 1887 - 988 sider
...oriel glimmers white ; When the cold lisht's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower : When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed...the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave. Then eo — bnt go alone the while — There view St. David's mined pile, And home returning, soothly swear.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 676 sider
...oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed...to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's And lands and livings, many a rood, grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view Saint David's... | |
 | Charles Eyre (Abp. of Glasgow) - 1887 - 426 sider
...uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem form'd of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery,...live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, SEEN BEST BY MOONLIGHT. 255 And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then go — but go alone... | |
 | J. Wass - 1888 - 40 sider
...oriel glimmers white ; Where the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed...the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go—but go alone the while— Then view St David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1889 - 168 sider
...the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; 10 When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that...dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — 15 Then view St. David's ruined pile : And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad... | |
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