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 Every Day Book for Youth - Page 337by Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
| English literature - 1823 - 734 pages
...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,...of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, Arid the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to give, And the owlet... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 pages
...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 ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When... | |
| 1823 - 732 pages
...fair Mclrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight, V.' hun the broken arches are black in sight, 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... | |
| William Thomas Moncrieff - Health resorts - 1824 - 396 pages
...beams of lightsome day Gild, hut 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 ruin d central tower; Then gaze thy fill, and home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad... | |
| sir Richard Phillips - 1825 - 408 pages
...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 the cold...central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seemed framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...ceuir.il lower; When luit. .. and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver cdjjes the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When ill i MU Tweed is heard to rave, And (lie owlet to boot o'er the dead man's grave Then go— but go... | |
| John Britton - Architecture - 1829 - 378 pages
...them in the scroll of ruin, by the pale light of the moon, " When the broken arches are dark in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the niin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory." •... | |
| Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...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...• And the scrolls that teach thee to live" and die ; ( i ) When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then... | |
| Thomas Moule, William Westall - Great Britain - 1830 - 250 pages
...beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the mins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold...buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and of ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die." The Abbey,... | |
| Conrad Malte-Brun - Atlases - 1831 - 924 pages
...beams of the 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 ruin'd central lower. When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory. When silver... | |
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