O woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's... The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 4201808Full view - About this book
| John Purdue Bidlake - 1863 - 224 pages
...the road to wealth, and? virtue to happiness ? ' Now, tread we a measure ! said young Loehinvar.' ' Forgot were hatred, wrongs, and fears, The plaintive voice alone she hears.' ' Why flamea the far summit ? Why shoot to the blast Those embers, like stars from the firmament cast... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...please, And variable as the shade By the light quiv'ring aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the...voice alone she hears, Sees but the dying man. She stoop'd her by the runnel's side, But in abhorrence backward drew ; For, oozing from the mountain wide,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1865 - 424 pages
...please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the...accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid 1 [MS — " Full on King James's central host."] To the nigh streamlet ran : Forgot were hatred, wrongs,... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...please, And variable as the shade By the light, quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the...in abhorrence backward drew; For, oozing from the mountain wide, Where raged the war, a dark-red tide Was curdling in the streamlet blue. Where shall... | |
| Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 pages
...please, And variable as the shade By the li(!ht quivering aspen made : When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou !— Scarce were the...But in abhorrence backward drew, For, oozing from tlio mountain's side, * A small stream. - i Where raged the war, a dark red tide Was curdling in the... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pages
...please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering °a?pen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! Scarce were the piteous...man. . She stooped her by the runnel's side, But in abhorrBnce backward drew ; For, oozing from the mountain wide, Where raged the war, a dark red tide... | |
| James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish ring the brow A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the...the dying man. She stooped her by the runnel's side, Where raged the war, a dark red tide Was curdling in the streamlet blue. Where shall she turn ! —... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pages
...please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish ring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the...plaintive voice alone she hears, Sees but the dying man. Slie stoop'd her by the runnel's side, But m abhorrence backward drew ; For, oozing from the mountain's... | |
| Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !— (Scarce were the...wrongs, and fears ; The plaintive voice alone she hears, Bees but the dying man. She stooped her by the runnel's side, But in abhorrence backward drew ; For,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 pages
...please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish ring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the...accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid 124 [CAM She stoop'd her by the runnel's side, But in abhorrence backward drew ; For, oozing from the... | |
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