 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 268 pages
...plain, I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruin'd pride. The quiet lake, the balmy air, The hill, the...such as once they were, Or is the dreary change in me ? Alas, the warp'd and broken board, How can it bear the painter's dye ! The harp of strain'd and tuneless... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1820 - 476 pages
...the plain I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruin'd pride. The quiet lake, the balmy air, The hill, the stream, the tower, the tree,Are they still such as once they were, Or is the dreary change in me ? Alas, the warp'd and broken... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 394 pages
...plain, I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruin'd pride The quiet lake, the balmy air, The hill, the stream, the tower, the tree,Are they still such as once they were, Or is the dreary change in me ? Alas, the warp d and broken... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 312 pages
...plain, 1 sec Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruin'd pride. The quiet lake, the balmy air, The hill, the stream, the tower, the tree,Are they still such as once they were, Or is the dreary change in me ? Alas ! the warp'd and broken... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...plain, I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Mclrose ri.se in ruin'd pride. The quiet lake, the balmy air, The hill, the stream, the tower, the tree,— Are ihey slill such as once they were, Or is the dreary change in me? Alas, the warp'd and broken board,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...plain, I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruiu'd pride. The quiet lake, the balmy air, The hill, the stream, the lower, the tree,— Are they still such as once Ihey were, Or is the dreary change in me? Alas, the... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...look along thy plain, I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruined pride. The quiet lake, the balmy air,...such as once they were ? Or is the dreary change in ine ? , < Alas, the warped and broken board, How can it bear the painter's dye! The harp of strained... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 428 pages
...plain I see Tweed's silver current glide, i And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruin'd pride. The quiet lake, the balmy air, The hill, the...as once they were, Or is the dreary change in me? . " Alas the warp'd and broken board, How can it bear the painter's dye ! The harp of strain'd and... | |
 | Robert Walsh - United States - 1837 - 504 pages
...the plain I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruin'd pride. The quiet lake, the balmy air, The hill, the...such as once they were, Or is the dreary change in me ? ' Alas ! the warp'd and broken board, How can it bear the painter's dye ! The harp of strain'd and... | |
 | Literature - 1837 - 598 pages
...pride. The quiet lake, the balmy air, I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane The hill, the stream, the tower, the tree,— Are...such as once they were, Or is the dreary change in me ? " Alas ! the warped and broken board, How can it bear the painter's dye ! The harp of strained and... | |
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Yet not the landscape to mine eye Bears those bright hues that once it bore ; Though evening, with her richest dye, Flames o'er the hills of Ettrick's shore. With listless look along the plain I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy... 
