 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. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's...  The Photographic News - Page 135edited by - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...became popular : — [Description of Mdrose А bbry.~[ If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go Adoration 'mong the leaves The gale his peace reports. day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...forced them still to rise. CRABBE. MELROSE ABBEY AS IT IS. 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. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel... | |
 | 1844 - 288 pages
...1844. PglCB MELROSE ABBEY. PRESENT APPEARANCE OF THE RUINS. If thon wonldst view fair Melrose aright Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the rains grey. "When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted... | |
 | 1923 - 850 pages
...Again, there is his description of Melrose Abbey : — If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. 'Where the broken arches are blank in night. And each shafted... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...then, enchant! ess ! I meet thee no more ! MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou wouldst view fair Mclrose aright, Go 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 shafted... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 382 pages
...SECOND. TIIE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. IF thou would'st view fair Mclrose aright, Go 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... | |
 | Valentine Mott - 1845 - 470 pages
...beautiful lines, where the author of Ivanhoe thus speaks : " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. " From thence we proceeded a little farther on to Dryburg Abbey,... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - 1845 - 408 pages
...— a perfect realization of the poet's description. " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go 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 shafted... | |
 | John Walker Ord - 1845 - 434 pages
...charm on every fragment that has dropt from his pen : — "If thou wouldst view Melrose aright, Go, 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 shafted oriel... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 372 pages
...diuque Plena Deo, in nostras degenerasse manus ? JGL LX. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go, 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 shafted... | |
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