 | Richard Edgcumbe - 1913 - 460 pages
...of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then go—but go alone the whileThen view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear,... | |
 | Lady Frances Winckley Shelley - Great Britain - 1913 - 462 pages
...of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; 1 " Fulman," published in 1684 ; a register of Melrose Abbey from AD 735 to 1270. 44 DRYBURGH ABBEY... | |
 | Alma Blount - American literature - 1914 - 406 pages
...of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet...— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair. Irving, by echoing... | |
 | Richard Henry Spencer - 1914 - 250 pages
...the ruined central tower; Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile; And home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair." A Robert Ker was defendant in a case before the Justices of New Castle-on- Tyne, in June 1231, and... | |
 | Keith Clark - Scotland - 1916 - 506 pages
...of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet...— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair." The moon did not... | |
 | Clarence Edward Andrews - Poetics - 1918 - 352 pages
...of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet...— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair. (Lay of the Last... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1923 - 824 pages
...of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; * When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet...grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view Saint David's ruined pile; 2 And, home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair ! II... | |
 | Benedetto Croce - Literature, Modern - 1923 - 348 pages
...oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain power Streams on the ruined centrai tower... Then go — but go alone the while, — Then view St. David's ruin«d pile; And home returuing, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair!... Altrettanto superficiale è... | |
 | Mrs. Waldo Richards - American poetry - 1924 - 750 pages
...buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, [ 151 1 When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet...Then go — but go alone the while —• Then view Saint David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair! SIR... | |
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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 imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is... 
