 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
 | Theodore Parker - 1855 - 466 pages
...which never has failed yet. Men fight battles ; women heal the wounds of the sick : — " Forgot are hatred, wrongs, and fears, The plaintive voice alone she hears, Sees but the dying man/' — and does not ask if foe or friend. Messrs. Pinchem & Peelem organize an establishment, wherein... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 424 pages
...The plaintive voiee alone she hears; She stoop'd her by the ruunel's side, But in abhorrenee baekward drew ; For, oozing from the mountain's side, Where raged the war, a dark-red tide Was eurdling in the streamlet blue. Where shall she turn ! — liehold her mark A little... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish ring the brow, A ministering angel thou I — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with 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's... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 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 piteous...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 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 piteous...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,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1857 - 436 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...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 mountains... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 420 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...plaintive voice alone she hears, Sees but the dying man.1 She stoop'd her by the runnel's side,2 But in abhorrence backward drew ; For, oozing from the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 428 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,... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 316 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...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's... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 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 piteous...voice alone she hears, Sees but the dying man. She filled the helm, and back she hied, And with surprise and joy espied A monk supporting Marmion's head;... | |
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