... the empty halls, And piecemeal crumble down the tow'rs to dust. Perhaps in some lone, dreary, desert tower, That time has spar'd, forth from the window looks, Half hid in grass, the solitary fox ; While from above, the owl, musician dire ! Screams... Description of the Abbeys of Melrose and Old Melrose, with Their Traditions - 86 ページJohn Bower (of Melrose.) 著 - 1822 - 125 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
| Natham Drake - 1800 - 510 ページ
...walls, Lash'd by the wintry tempests, cold and bleak, That whistle mournful thro' the empty halls, And piece-meal crumble down the towers to dust. Equal...sharers of its fate, A row of moss-grown trees around it stands; Scarce here and there, upon their blasted tops, A shrivell'd leaf distinguishes the year. •... | |
| 1804 - 496 ページ
...wails, Lash'd by the wintry tempests, cckl and bleak, That whistle mournful thro' the empty halls, And piece-meal crumble down the towers to dust. 'Equal in age, and sharers of its fate, A row of muss-grown trees around it stands ; Scarce here and there, uprm their blasted tops, A slirivt.'11'd... | |
| Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 668 ページ
...hideous, harsh, and grating to the ear. Equal in age, and sharers of its fate, A row of moss-green trees around it stand : Scarce here and there upon their blasted tops, A shrivelled leaf distinguishes the year. The population of the county of Kinross stands thus : KINROSS-SUIRf.... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 308 ページ
...hideous, harsh, and grating to the ear.. Equal in age, and sharers of its i'nte, s' A row of moss-green trees around it stand. Scarce here and there, upon...blasted tops, A shrivell'd leaf distinguishes the year: Emblem of hoary age, the eve of life, When man draws nigh his everlasting home, Within a step of the... | |
| Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 354 ページ
...solitary fox ; While from above, the owl, musician dire ! Screams hideous, harsh, and grating to the ear. Equal in age, and sharers of its fate, A row of moss-grown...; Scarce here and there upon their blasted tops A shrivelled leaf distinguishes the year. IN the year 1335, this castle sustained a memorable siege,... | |
| William Barker Daniel - 1812 - 654 ページ
...cold and bleak, That whistle mournful thro' the empty halls, And piecemeal, crumble down the tow'rs to dust. Equal in age, and sharers of its fate, A...blasted tops, A shrivell'd leaf distinguishes the year. BRUCE. Loch Leven produces Pike, Perch, Trout of peculiar redness and excellence, and of about six... | |
| Stirling town - 1812 - 328 ページ
...hideous, harsh, and grating to the ear» Equal in age, and sharers of its fate, A row of moss-green trees around it stand : Scarce here and there upon their blasted tops, A shrivelled leaf distinguishes the year. LOCHLEVEN abounds with trout of a richness and delicacy rarely... | |
| Rev. Joseph Robertson - 1814 - 302 ページ
...walls, Lash'd by the wintry tempests, cold and bleak, That whistle mournful through the empty halls, And piece-meal crumble down the towers to dust. Equal in age, and sharing in its fate, A row of moss-grown trees around it stand ; Scarce here and there, upon their... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 636 ページ
...fox ; While from above, the owl, musician dire ! Screams hideous, harsh, and grating to the ear. 1 Equal in age, and sharers of its fate, A row of moss-grown...it stand, Scarce here and there, upon their blasted tope, A shrivell'd leaf distinguishes the year.' The poem closes with these touching lines. ' " Thus... | |
| James Mitchell - 1825 - 798 ページ
...solitary fox ; While, from above, the owl, musician dire ! Screams hideous, harsh, and grating ю the ear. Equal in age, and sharers of its fate, A row of moss-grown trees around it stund ; Scarce here and there, upon their blasted tops, A shrivell'd leaf distinguishes the year."... | |
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