Nor tempt the stormy firth to-day. ' The blackening wave is edged with white; To inch and rock the sea-mews fly; The fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forebode that wreck is nigh. ' Last night the gifted Seer did view A wet shroud swathed... The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem - Page 141by Walter Scott - 1811 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
| Adam and Charles Black, Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1851 - 284 pages
...the lovely Rosabelle. " Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew ! And, gentle ladye, deign to stay ! Rest thee in Castle Ravensheuch, Nor tempt the stormy...fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forbode that wreck is nigh. " Last night the gifted Seer did view A wet shroud swathed round ladye... | |
| William Thompson - Zoology - 1851 - 508 pages
...crew ! And, gentle ladye, deign to stay I Rest thee in Castle Eavenscheuch, Nor tempt the stormy frith to-day. " The blackening wave is edged with white...water-sprite, Whose screams forebode that wreck is nigh." Lay of the Loial Miuslrel, canto vi. On the 20th March, 1834, the ground being remarkably dry, as no... | |
| mrs. Gordon - 1851 - 292 pages
...tell us love can die." FINIS. ALLAN M'TAVISH'S FISHING. ALLAN M'TAVISH'S FISHING. Why cross the gloomy firth to-day? ****** The blackening wave is edged...fishers have heard the Water-sprite, Whose screams forbode that wreck is nigh. Lay of the Last Minstrel. IN a secluded nook of one of the wildest and... | |
| Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...the lovely Rosabelle. — "Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew And, gentle ladye, deign to stay! tt The blackening wave is edged with white ; To inch...rock the sea-mews fly : The fishers have heard the Water Sprite, Whose screams forbode that wreck is nigh. "-Last night the gifted seer did view A wet... | |
| English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...Ladye, Rest thce in Castle Ravensheuch, Nor tempt the stormy frith to-day. 'The black'ning wave is edg'd clothed in apparel, with swords capable of cleaving...asunder at я blow, under whose yoke their poster forbode that wreck U nigh. ' Last night the gifttd seer did view A wet shroud roll'd round Ladye gay... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 780 pages
...in Castle Raveneheuch, Nor tempt the Biormy Irith to-day. ' The black'ning wave is edg'd with while; To inch* and rock the sea-mews fly ; The fishers have heard the Waier-Spriie, Whose soreams forbode that wreck a nigh. ' Last night thp gifii'd seer did view A wet... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...lovely Rosabelle. — " Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew ! And, gentle ladye, deign to stay ! Rest thee in Castle Ravensheuch, Nor tempt the stormy...Water-Sprite, Whose screams forebode that wreck is nigh. "Last night the gifted Seer did view A wet shroud swathed round ladye gay ; Then stay thee, Fair, in... | |
| Walter Scott - English poetry - 1855 - 914 pages
...moor the barge, ye gallant crew ! And, gentle ladye, deign to stay 1 Rest thoe in Castle Ravcnsheuch,1 Nor tempt the stormy firth to-day. " The blackening...fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forbode that wreck is nigh. " Last night the gifted Seer did view A wet shroud swathed' round ladye... | |
| John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...So stay I Best thue in Castle Ravensheuch, Nor tempt the stormy firth to-day. " The blackening ware is edged with white : To inch and rock the sea-mews fly ; The fisher* hare heard the W»trr-Sprile, Whose screams forebode that wreck if nigh. " Last night the gifted... | |
| Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...moor the barge, ye gallant crew ! And, gentle ladye, deign to stay 1 Rest the* in Castle Ravenshench," Nor tempt the stormy firth to-day. " The blackening...fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forbode that wreck is nigh. " Last night the gifted Seer did view A wet shroud swathed round lariye... | |
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