 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
 | 1842 - 480 ページ
...Scott died on the 2lst of September, 1832. SCOTT. MELROSE ABBEY. If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the rums grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 746 ページ
...lightsome day Gild, but to flout, ibe nuns gray. When the broken arches ore black in night, And etch shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central lower; When bnliressand buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 ページ
...the gay beams of lightsome day Go visit it by the pale moon-light; Gild but to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory; And the... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - 1843 - 568 ページ
...with the spirit of past times, in the ruins of Melrose Abbey :— ' If you would view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray.' And surely if Melrose, with all the associations of romantic history clinging to its relicts,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 ページ
...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 the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When huttress and huttress, alternately, Seem framed of ehon and ivory; When... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 ページ
...which instantly became popular : — [Description of Mdrox Abbey."} If thou would'st view fair Melrose ev's pride ; Why think we these less pleasing to behold Than dreary gray. When the broken arches are black in ni«ht, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 ページ
...heighten the effect of the picture which he presents to the eye : — " 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 ページ
...heart, and forced them still to rise. CRABBE. MELROSE ABBEY AS IT IS. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 ページ
...instantly became popular : — [Description of Mdrose А bbry.~[ If thou would'st view fair Melrose eaves, For Adoration 'mong the leaves The gale his peace reports. gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold... | |
 | 1923 - 850 ページ
...boy. . . . Again, there is his description of Melrose Abbey : — If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the...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... | |
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