 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 the dead man's grave, Then go —...  Littell's Living Age - Pagina 2481866Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 pagina’s
...o'«r the dead man's grave — Then go — but £0 alone the while—- Then view St. David's ruined pile, And home returning soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair. VILLAGE BELLS. JM. .3. JBrmnnr. THEBE'S a charming sound on the morning air, It comes from the white... | |
 | EDUCATION SOCIETY'S PRESS, CULLA - 1860 - 612 pagina’s
...Seemfram'd of ebon and ivory; * * * * Then go, hut go alone the while, And view St. David's ruined pile: And home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair. Paraphrase without expanding; criticise the passage in italics. 2. (a) The moonbeam kissed the holy... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 pagina’s
...to hoot o'er the dead man's 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! Short halt did Deloraine make there; Little recked he of the scene so fair. With dagger's hilt, on... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1860 - 300 pagina’s
...alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory : 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. THIS Cistercian abbey stands in the most picturesque part of the grand amphitheatre formed by a majestic... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pagina’s
...For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ;...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! Scorr. Song af % (Bari^-spirit in Jfaaat. IN the swelling flood of life, In the storm of action going,... | |
 | James A. Wade - 1861 - 440 pagina’s
...Whoever seeks St. Mary's silent aisles may enjoy an hour with antiquity and the spoils of time— " And home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair." NOTE.—A good-natured condescension on the part of the public would still add to the interest of these... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pagina’s
...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 white ;...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! SIR WALTER SCOTT. 31. THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH. HARK ! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers ; Prepare... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pagina’s
...the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ;...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! LOVE OF COUNTRY. BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Wrho never to himself hath said, This... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 pagina’s
...to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while—- And view St. David's ruin'd pile, And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad, so fair ! Scott. BOOK V. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. OUR bugles sangtrnce, for the night-cloud had lower'd,... | |
 | England - 1862 - 162 pagina’s
...prison-chamber in the Tower of London. Well might the poet exhort the visitor of a ruined abbey : — " And home returning soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair. |;HIS abbey is situated to the south-east of the town of Rotherham, and is in the deanery of Doncaster,... | |
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