 When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; 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 silver edges the...  The Monthly Magazine - Page 4511812Full view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1838 - 938 pages
...visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each...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 and... | |
 | 1838 - 876 pages
...moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins grey. When the broken arches arc black in night And each shafted oriel glimmers white...tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thec to live and... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to Bout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in niycfc, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower: When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seemed framed of ebon and ivory: When... | |
 | 708 pages
...visit it by the pale moonlight ; For 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." " The second couplet," quoth Christie, " has no business there — omit these two lines, and you will... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins THE SET OF DIAMONDS. 137 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 ; When... | |
 | 1840 - 594 pages
...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 ruined central tower." ST. Martin's abbey (la Badia di San Martino) lies at the distance of four miles... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...it I iy the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. ring Noble bled for fame, The Patriot for his country's...his lady's love ; Some fought from ruffian thirst of framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and... | |
 | Abbeys - 1841 - 240 pages
...visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay 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 ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seemed framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
 | Robert Rouière Pearce - 1841 - 192 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 shafted oriel glimmers white ; "When buttress and buttress alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory, When silver edges the imagery ; Then... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each...tower; When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thec to live and... | |
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