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 ; When silver edges the... American Quarterly Review - Page 219edited by - 1837Full view - About this book
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...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...uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; 2 When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...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...central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live... | |
| England - 1838 - 884 pages
...visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the guy 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... | |
| Arthur Jewitt - 376 pages
...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...glimmers white; " When the cold light's uncertain shower, " Xfreaais on the ruined central tower ; " Whe-J butlress and buttress alternately, " Seeui framed... | |
| 1828 - 454 pages
...it " When the broken arches ore black In night. And each shafted oriel glimmer* white; When the void light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory ;" but to see it as a traveller ought to see it; to be able to examine... | |
| Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...For the gay heams of lightsome day Gild hut to flout the ruins gray. When the hroken arches are hlack in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ;...shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When huttress and huttress, alternately, Seem framed of ehon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 pages
...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...central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live... | |
| Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...tlie ruins gray. When the broken arches are blank in -night, And euch sJiafted oriel glimmers wliite ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower • ff'hen buttress and buttress , alternately , Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges... | |
| English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...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...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seems fram'd of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 582 pages
...visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the rums gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each...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... | |
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