 | 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
...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...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...youthful strength to prove, And that to win his lady's l ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
 | 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
...fair Mary's aright, .Go view it by the pale moon light ; (For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray. ) When the broken arches...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...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... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 1842 - 598 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 ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 746 pages
...lightsome day Gild, but to flout, ibe nuns gray. When the broken arches ore black in night, And etch shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central lower; When bnliressand buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver... | |
 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...fair Melrose aright, For the gay beams of lightsome day Go visit it by the pale moon-light; Gild but to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory; And the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pages
...the gay heams of lightsome day Gild, hut to flout, the ruins gray. When the hroken archea ;ir- hlack in night) And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When huttress and huttress, alternately, Seem framed of ehon and ivory; When... | |
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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... 
