 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...it I iy the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. ring Noble bled for fame, The Patriot for his country's...youthful strength to prove, And that to win his lady's l ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1842 - 504 pages
...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...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 silver... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 pages
...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...buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory; And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When silver edges the imagery, When distant Tweed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pages
...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...uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When huttress and huttress, alternately, Seem framed of ehon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome atron's g edge« the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pages
...wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight : For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken...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... | |
 | 1844 - 288 pages
...visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the rains grey. "When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light'a uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately,... | |
 | 1866 - 956 pages
...For the gay beams of gladsome day Gild but to Hout the ruins grey. When the broken arches are blnck in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ;...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...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 gray. When the broken arches are black in ni«ht, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the... | |
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When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while... 
