 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
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1845 - 382 pages
...alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the infagery, 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 The buttresses, ranged along the sides of the ruins of Melrose Abbey, are, according to the Gothic... | |
 | John Walker Ord - Cleveland (England) - 1845 - 434 pages
...imagery, And the scrolls that teach us to live or die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owl 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, so fair." Lay... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Tracts - 1846 - 282 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,...; 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 ! TIME.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 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,...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 ! 72... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 342 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, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair. Scott.... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 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, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair. Scott.... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...alternately. Seem fram'd of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, Aud the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave,...Then go ! — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ! And, home returning, sootb.lv swear, Was never scene so sad and fair!" —... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...silver edges the imagery, 364 And ihe scrolls lhal leach thee to live and die ; W hen distant Tweed ii heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave Then po! — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ! Arnl. hume returning, soothly... | |
 | Jean Froissart - Great Britain - 1847 - 378 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,...; 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1847 - 582 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,...; Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene «о sad and fair !"... | |
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