 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 ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 111805Full view - About this book
 | 1805 - 948 pages
...wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay 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 light's uncertain shower Streams on the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1805 - 344 pages
...would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay 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 light's uncertain shower Streams on the... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 788 pages
...wonHst View fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay 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 light's uncertain shower Streams on the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay 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 light's uncertain shower Streams on the... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay 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 light's uncertain shower Streams on the... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 376 pages
...view fsir ileliosc arjgbt, " 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 night, " And each shafted Oriel glimmers white; " When the cold light's uncertain shower, " Xfreaais... | |
 | 1847 - 480 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 arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 pages
...would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay 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 light's uncertain shower Streams on the... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 584 pages
...wouklst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay 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 light's uncertain shower, Streams on the... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 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 arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the... | |
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