| English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...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 glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...— [Description of Mdrox Abbey."} If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale less pleasing to behold Than dreary gray. When the broken arches are black in ni«ht, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold... | |
| Periodicals - 1844 - 288 pages
...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 oriel glimmers white; When... | |
| Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1845 - 382 pages
...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 oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...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 oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
| Valentine Mott - Europe - 1845 - 470 pages
...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, where all that there is of mortal... | |
| William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...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 oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
| John Walker Ord - Cleveland (England) - 1845 - 434 pages
...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 glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Tracts - 1846 - 282 pages
...accepted sacrifice. MELROSE ABBEY. IP 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 oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
| William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...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 oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
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