 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...and harmonized, and thon shouldst feel God, always, every-where, and all in all. ON MELROSE ABBEY. If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the rains gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...in its- sentiments, affectionate, noble, and friendly in its thoughts and feelings. MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...Encouraged thus, the aged man, After meet rest, again began. CANTO II. Ir tliou wouldst view fair Mel rose 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... | |
 | Thomas Moule, William Westall - Great Britain - 1830 - 250 pages
...increase the interest excited by a view of the remains of this Abbey in a very remarkable degree : — " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gny beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the mins gray. When the broken arches are black in night,... | |
 | Conrad Malte-Brun - Atlases - 1831 - 924 pages
...have made all Europe acquainted with the beauties and manners of ancient Scotland. If thou woulcl'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of the lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And... | |
 | 1836 - 726 pages
...for not having gone purposely to inspect. But what said the poet of whom I have just been speaking? " If thou woulds't view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight." Now there was no moon during the week I was at Kelso; neither if there had, could I hare spared a day... | |
 | Conrad Malte-Brun - Atlases - 1831 - 918 pages
...Europe acquainted with the beauties and manners of ancient Scotland. If thou would'it view fair Melroie' aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of the lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. Whcil the broken arches are black ir; night, And... | |
 | Thomas Moule - Great Britain - 1832 - 388 pages
...increase the interest excited by a view of the remains of this Abbey in a very remarkable degree : — " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...shed Upon a duteous daughter's head! [From The Lay of the Loft Mimtrel.] MELROSE ABBEY BY MOONLIGHT. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...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... | |
 | Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...the first. For survey the second, we all know the hour, and the guide too. If thou wouldst view fuir Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight...the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When... | |
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IF thou 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. 
