 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...  Transactions - Página 6por Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1881Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1852 - 782 páginas
...fram'd of ebon and ivory ; When silver edge« the imagery, 564 365 And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlei to hoot o'er the de«d man'« grave ; Then go! — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 páginas
...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,...— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile; And, home returning, soothly sweur, Was never scene so sad and fair ! Tlie tame. LOVE... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 páginas
...alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; Wn filver edges the imagery, Anl the «rolls 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, Tben go — but go alone the while — Than view St. David's ruin'd pile ;* And, bome returning, soothly... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1854 - 264 páginas
...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,...while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! THE TURKEY AND THE ANT. IN other men... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 348 páginas
...the daytime we had criticised Walter Scott's moonlight description in the lines which say, — " The distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave." " We hear nothing of the Tweed, at any rate," said we ; " that must be a poetic license." But now at... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1903 - 270 páginas
...ruins by "the pale moonlight " and alluding to its churchyard, says : - — "When distant Tweed ia heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave." One summer evening as I stood on the bridge and listened to the water rushing ovelr the weir, a few... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 páginas
...framed of ebon and Ivory ; When silver edges the Imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'erthe dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined pile ;... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 páginas
...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,...while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! BOAT SONG. "THE LADY OF THE LAKE.'... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 páginas
...alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach ! tux- to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's frave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's rained pile ; And home returning,... | |
 | Seymour Eaton - 1899 - 338 páginas
...alternately, Seemed framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imag'ry, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave,...while — Then view St. David's ruined pile, And, home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair." Scott made the mountains and lakes... | |
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