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
| Walter Scott - English poetry - 1821 - 530 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, She stoop'd her by the runnel's side, But in abhorrence backward drew ; For, oozing from the mountain's... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 596 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, She stoop'd her by the runnel's side, But in abhorrence backward drew; For, oozing from the mountain's... | |
| Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 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... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made f When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the...plaintive voice alone she hears, Sees but the dying man. "• . ,*t,' f She stooped her by the runnel's side, She filled the helm, and back she hied, .... And... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 314 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, She stoop'd her by the runnel's side, But in abhorrence backward drew ; For, oozing from the mountain's... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 528 pages
...streamlet ran : Forgot were hatred, wrongs, and fears ; The plaintive voice alone she hears, She stoop'd her by the runnel's side, But in abhorrence backward drew ; For, oozing from the mountain's side, Wher6 raged the war, a dark-red tide Was curdling in the streamlet blue. Where shall she turn ! —... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspea made, — When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the b.irous casque, the maid To the nigti streamlet ran : Forgot were hatred, wrongs, and fears. The plaintive... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 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...the dying man. She stooped her by the runnel's side, She filled the helm, and back she hied,. .. , And with surprise and joy espied A Monk supporting Marmion's... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...light quivering a^pf-n made; When pain and anguish •, nng the brow, A ministering angel thoii! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the...plaintive voice alone she hears, Sees but the dying mm She stooped her by the . .'..'iiel's side, She filled the helm, and back she hied, And with surprise... | |
| Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 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... | |
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