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... American Quarterly Review - Page 219edited by - 1837Full view - About this book
| William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 342 pages
...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...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... | |
| William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...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...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... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...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...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... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, Aud each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately. Seem fram'd of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...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 while ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower; When buttress and... | |
| Great Britain - 1847 - 582 pages
...vieit 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...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... | |
| Jean Froissart - Great Britain - 1847 - 378 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...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... | |
| George Musgrave Musgrave - Paris (France) - 1848 - 326 pages
...beautiful by full moonlight. " For the fair beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each...central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, — * * * Then go — but go alone the... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Architecture - 1848 - 512 pages
...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...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... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 330 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 ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When... | |
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