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... Poetical works - 24 ページsir Walter Scott (bart.) 著 - 1876全文表示 - この書籍について
| Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
| Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - 2006 - 412 ページ
...as a convenient icon by which to contemplate a longforgotten past: If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the...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... | |
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