 Is there none, Of all my halls have nursed, Page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst ! " 0 woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light...  The universal anthology, a collection of the best literature, with ... - Pagina 253geredigeerd door - 1899Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Walter Scott - 1808 - 526 pagina’s
...pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmured, — " Is there none, Of all my halls have nurst, Page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" — • XXXI. O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable... | |
 | 1808 - 742 pagina’s
...peculiarly beautiful. The dying Marmioa exclaims ———Is there none Of all my hulls have nurst, Pace, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring. To »Ukc my d\ ir.g. thirst t • _0, woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,... | |
 | Henry William Lovett - 1810 - 190 pagina’s
...Without sorrow, we could never know half the value of heaven's last best gift to man : — . " Oh, woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; 136 And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1812 - 382 pagina’s
...right, then thought it wrong j But Redesdale calm'd the tumult wild, And Liverpool look'd up and smil'd. O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please j And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; My guardian angel stand confest, For... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pagina’s
...pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmured, — " Is there none, Of all my halls have nurst, Page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" — •XXX. O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 340 pagina’s
...wrung forth a lowly moan, , And half he murmured, — " Is there none, Of all my halls have nurst, . Page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" III. O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade... | |
 | 1834 - 918 pagina’s
...either too deep for utterance, or the fear of disturhing the dying moments of her lover made her dumb. " O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable u the »hade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering... | |
 | Mrs. Ross - 1818 - 526 pagina’s
...not worth having; at least, I never should regret they were withheld from any of my friends." "Oh, woman '. in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as is the shade By the light quivering aspen made — " " How great a revolution of sentiment does a fleeting... | |
 | Thomas Brown (the elder, pseud.) - 1818 - 714 pagina’s
...presented to him on his road through life with his new partner, still will he have to say — Oh ! woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And varying as the uncertain shade By the light trembling aspen made, When care and sorrow rend our brow,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pagina’s
...groom, one cup to hring Of hlessed \vater, from the spring, To slako my dying thirst !" — XXXI. 0, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variahle as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the hrew, A ministering... | |
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