| Seymour Eaton - 1899 - 338 pages
...the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray, MELROSE ABBEY FROM THE SOUTHEAST. 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... | |
| 1899 - 328 pages
...the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray, MELROSE ABBEY FROM THE SOUTHEAST. 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... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1900 - 604 pages
...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...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; m When... | |
| William Clarke Robinson - English poetry - 1900 - 220 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, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When... | |
| Walter Scott - English Literature - 1900 - 618 pages
...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; 10 When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed... | |
| Edward T. Clarke - Bermondsey (London, England) - 1901 - 330 pages
...Go visit it by the pale moonlight : For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, its ruins gray ; When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white," etc. And thus the Night of Time closed in around St. Saviour's Abbey. Saxon Cross fixed in the Watt... | |
| Walter Freye - Gothic revival (Literature) - 1902 - 72 pages
...be recalled by imagination — tears of penitence, which had been Gild but to flout the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each...uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower; When butress and butress alternately, Seem framed of ebou and ivory When silver edges the imagery, And the... | |
| Rose Mary, Kavana, Arthur Beatty - English language - 1902 - 468 pages
...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, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
| Robert Naylor Whiteford - English poetry - 1903 - 464 pages
...visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. 5 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, 10 Seem framed of ebon and ivory ;... | |
| William Shillinglaw Crockett, Sir James Lewis Caw - Authors, Scottish - 1903 - 66 pages
...Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flcut, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmeis white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; Rhymer's... | |
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