 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...  American Quarterly Review - Page 219edited by - 1837Full view - About this book
 | Staffa - 1850 - 186 pages
...When silver edges the imagery. And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When the distant sea is heard to rave. And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead...grave; Then go— but go alone the while — Then view lona's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair.' The Chapter-house... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...alternately, Seem'd framed of ebon and ivory: When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee , e], gr»vt, Then go—but go alone the while— Then view Saint David's ruin'd pile; And, home returning,... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1850 - 432 pages
...instead of the usual ending, " Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair !" the poet had penned this amusing variation, Then go — and meditate with awe On scenes the author never... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...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 heard to rave,...grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile; And, home returning, sooibly swear, LOVE OF COUNTRY. Breathes there a man... | |
 | Walter Scott - English Literature - 1900 - 618 pages
...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 is heard to rave, And the owlet to boot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view Saint David's ruined... | |
 | Rose Mary, Kavana, Arthur Beatty - English language - 1902 - 468 pages
...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 heard to rave,...grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile. — SIR WALTER SCOTT, The Lay of the Last Minstrel. The fundamental quality... | |
 | Robert Naylor Whiteford - English poetry - 1903 - 464 pages
...alternately, 10 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 heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, 1 5 Then go — but go alone the while — Then view Saint David's ruined pile ; And, home returning,... | |
 | Eleanor Childs Meehan - Europe - 1903 - 390 pages
...wouldst view fair Melrose right, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; Then go, but go alone the while, To view Saint David's ruined pile. And home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair." But now we must take our departure, hoping some time to repeat our visit here, and go also to Burns'... | |
 | William Shillinglaw Crockett, Sir James Lewis Caw - Authors, Scottish - 1903 - 66 pages
...ruined central tower ; Rhymer's Glen see page 20 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. Abbotsford may be called the centre of Sir Walter Scott's Country. Originally it was a small farm named... | |
 | William Shillinglaw Crockett, Sir James Lewis Caw - Authors, Scottish - 1903 - 66 pages
...ruined central tower ; Rhymer's Glen see page 20 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. Abbotsford may be called the centre of Sir Walter Scott's Country. Originally it was a small farm named... | |
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