 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 440 pages
...hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go, — hut go alone the while — Then view St David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! VENICE. THERE is a glorious city in the sea ; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 476 pages
...that teach thce to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the howlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair. * * • * By a steel-clench 'd postern door, They enter'd now the chancel tall ; The darken'd roof... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Great Britain - 1835 - 578 pages
...imagery And the scrolls that teach theeto live and die: Then go— but go alone the whileThen view Saint David's ruined pile; And home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair!" We passed sufficiently near to Abbotsford, to satisfy, in a degree al least, our curiosity in reference... | |
 | Robert Walsh - United States - 1837 - 504 pages
...that teach tbee 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 while — Then view Saint David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair !" The... | |
 | Scotland - 1838 - 938 pages
...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 while...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair." The second couplet has no business there — and forcibly brings before us an image which should have... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the whileThen view Saint David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! П. Short halt did Deloraine make there; Little recked he of the scene so fair With dagger's hilt,... | |
 | Abbeys - 1841 - 240 pages
...teach thee to live and die ; When the distant tweed is heard to rave. And the how let to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then go — but go alone the while...pile ; And home returning, soothly swear Was never seen so sad and fair. By a steel clenched postern door, They entered now the chancel tall ; The darken'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...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 while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ;' And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. Short halt... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 1842 - 598 pages
...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 while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! " Within the Abbey... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...that teach thec 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 while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! » * * * The pillar'd... | |
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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 heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er... 
