 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 Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 496 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... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 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 stoopesl her by the runnel's side, She filled the helm, and back she hied, .... And with surprise and... | |
 | Truth - 1837 - 566 pages
...made, When care and anguish rock the brow, . , A ministering angel thou ! * * * * . Forgot are vices, wrongs and fears, The plaintive voice alone she hears — Sees but the dying man.' But all this lovely prospect is blighted — this angelic character marred, by one hostile being, called... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...please, And \ariable as the shade Bv the light quivering aspen made, — Wben pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! — Scarce were the...backward drew; For, oozing from the mountain's side, Wbípre raged the war, a dark -red tide Was curdling in the streamlet blue. Where shall she turn? —... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 92 pages
...ministering angel thou ! — Searee were the piteous aeeents said, When, with the Itaron's easque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran : Forgot were hatred, wrongs, and fears ; The plaintive voiee alone she hears, Sees but the dying man. She stooped her by the runnel's side, But in abhorrenee... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 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's... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, 8 A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous...voice alone she hears, Sees but the dying- man. She stoops her by the runnel's side, She filled the helm, and back she hied, And with surprise and joy... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 380 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the swarm He brings to aid his murderous arm.1 See Appendix,...his Highland cheer, The harden'd flesh of mountain man.8 She stoop'd her by the runners side,8 But in abhorrence backward drew ; For, oozing from the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pages
...the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When paln and anruish wring the hrow A mimstering aiigel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When,...and fears; The plaintive voice alone she hears, Sees hut the dying man. She stooped her hy the runnel's side, But in ahhorrence hackward drew For, oozing... | |
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