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
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 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...When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that leach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead... | |
| Charles Samuel Stewart - 1835 - 578 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...silver edges the imagery And the scrolls that teach theeto live and die: Then go— but go alone the whileThen view Saint David's ruined pile; And home... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 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...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... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 pages
...And each shafted oriel glimmers white j When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately,...silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thce to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the howlet to hoot o'er the dead man's... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1837 - 504 pages
...flout, the ruins gray. 1837.] Lockharfs Life of Scott. 219 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 tbee to... | |
| Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 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...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... | |
| 1838 - 876 pages
...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 ; 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... | |
| 1840 - 594 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...uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower." ST. Martin's abbey (la Badia di San Martino) lies at the distance of four miles from Parma, in a south-westerly... | |
| 1841 - 240 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... | |
| Robert Rouière Pearce - 1841 - 192 pages
...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 go— ^but go alone the while — Then view St, Mary's ruined pile. The ruins of St. Mary's... | |
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