The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Complete in One Volume. With Introductions and Notes..Robert Cadell, St. Andrew Square., 1841 - 823 pages |
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... cross ; By wily turns , by desperate bounds , Had baffled Percy's best blood - hounds ; 6 In Eske or Liddel , fords were none , But he would ride them , one by one ; Alike to him was time or tide , December's snow , or July's pride ; 1 ...
... cross ; By wily turns , by desperate bounds , Had baffled Percy's best blood - hounds ; 6 In Eske or Liddel , fords were none , But he would ride them , one by one ; Alike to him was time or tide , December's snow , or July's pride ; 1 ...
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... Cross of Red Triumphant Michael brandished , And trampled the Apostate's pride . The moon - beam kiss'd the holy pane , And threw on the pavement a bloody stain.7 XII . They sate them down on a marble stone , & - ( A Scottish monarch ...
... Cross of Red Triumphant Michael brandished , And trampled the Apostate's pride . The moon - beam kiss'd the holy pane , And threw on the pavement a bloody stain.7 XII . They sate them down on a marble stone , & - ( A Scottish monarch ...
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... cross might over him wave , And scare the fiends from the Wizard's grave . XVI . " It was a night of woe and dread , When Michael in the tomb I laid ! Strange sounds along the chancel pass'd , The banners waved without a blast ...
... cross might over him wave , And scare the fiends from the Wizard's grave . XVI . " It was a night of woe and dread , When Michael in the tomb I laid ! Strange sounds along the chancel pass'd , The banners waved without a blast ...
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... cross was the body laid , With hands clasp'd fast , as if still he pray'd . XXIV . The Knight breathed free in the morning wind , And strove his hardihood to find : He was glad when he pass'd the tombstones grey , Which girdle round the ...
... cross was the body laid , With hands clasp'd fast , as if still he pray'd . XXIV . The Knight breathed free in the morning wind , And strove his hardihood to find : He was glad when he pass'd the tombstones grey , Which girdle round the ...
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... cross'd , And laugh'd , and shouted , " Lost ! lost ! lost ! " - XIV . Full sore amazed at the wondrous change , And frighten❜d as a child might be , At the wild yell and visage strange , And the dark words of gramarye , The child ...
... cross'd , And laugh'd , and shouted , " Lost ! lost ! lost ! " - XIV . Full sore amazed at the wondrous change , And frighten❜d as a child might be , At the wild yell and visage strange , And the dark words of gramarye , The child ...
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Page 198 - He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The font reappearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory. The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest.
Page 121 - One touch to her hand and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall-door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! ' She is won ! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur ; They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Page 14 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Page 184 - Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking; Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. In our isle's enchanted hall, Hands unseen thy couch are strewing, Fairy strains of music fall, Every sense in slumber dewing. Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, Dream of fighting fields no more ; Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Morn of toil, nor night of waking.
Page 177 - The stag at eve had drunk his fill, Where danced the moon on Monan's rill, And deep his midnight lair had made In lone Glenartney's hazel shade...
Page 36 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires! what mortal hand can e'er untie the filial band, that knits me to thy rugged strand!
Page 184 - No rude sound shall reach* thine ear, Armour's clang, or war-steed champing, Trump nor pibroch summon here Mustering clan or squadron tramping. Yet the lark's shrill fife may come At the daybreak from the fallow, And the bittern sound his drum, Booming from the sedgy shallow. Ruder sounds shall none be near, Guards nor warders challenge here, Here's no war-steed's neigh and champing, Shouting clans or squadrons stamping.
Page 138 - And sudden, as he spoke, From the sharp ridges of the hill, All downward to the banks of Till, Was wreathed in sable smoke. Volumed and vast, and rolling far, The cloud enveloped Scotland's war As down the hill they broke ; Nor martial shout, nor minstrel tone, Announced their march ; their tread alone, At times one warning trumpet blown, At times a stifled hum, Told England, from his...
Page 140 - 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...
Page 129 - And carols roar*d with blithesome din ; If unmelodious was the song, It was a hearty note, and strong. Who lists may in their mumming see Traces of ancient mystery ; White shirts supplied the masquerade, And smutted cheeks the visors made ; But...