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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...

The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last ... - Page 325
by Walter Scott - 1833
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The Return of Merlin: Star Lore and the Patterns of History

Charles Gordon Strachan - 2006 - 180 pages

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The Methuen Book of Poems for Every Day

Methuen - 2006 - 562 pages

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Romanticism: Romanticism and the margins

Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - 2006 - 408 pages

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Sunny Memories in Foreign Lands

Harriet Beecher Stowe - 2006 - 401 pages

...the daytime we had criticized 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...

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Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 1

Harriet Beecher Stowe - 2007 - 336 pages

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Abbotsford

W. S Crockett - 2008 - 312 pages

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