The Poetical Works of Sir Walter ScottPhillips, Sampson, & Company, 1852 - 580 pages |
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... a crime . A wandering harper , scorned and poor , He begged his bread from door to door And tuned , to please a peasant's ear , The harp , a King had loved to hear . He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's.
... a crime . A wandering harper , scorned and poor , He begged his bread from door to door And tuned , to please a peasant's ear , The harp , a King had loved to hear . He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's.
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Walter Scott. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower ; The Minstrel gazed with wishful eye No humbler resting place was nigh , With hesitating step , at last , The embattled portal - arch he passed ...
Walter Scott. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower ; The Minstrel gazed with wishful eye No humbler resting place was nigh , With hesitating step , at last , The embattled portal - arch he passed ...
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... look for sympathy . Her lover , ' gainst her father's clan , With Car in arms had stood , When Mathouse - burn to Melrose ran , All purple with their blood . And well she knew , her mother dread , Before Lord Cranstoun she should wed ...
... look for sympathy . Her lover , ' gainst her father's clan , With Car in arms had stood , When Mathouse - burn to Melrose ran , All purple with their blood . And well she knew , her mother dread , Before Lord Cranstoun she should wed ...
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... look ; If thou readest , thou art lorn ! Better had'st thou ne'er been born . " " O swiftly can speed my dapple - gray steed , Which drinks of the Teviot clear ; Ere break of day , " the warrior ' gan say , " Again will I be here : And ...
... look ; If thou readest , thou art lorn ! Better had'st thou ne'er been born . " " O swiftly can speed my dapple - gray steed , Which drinks of the Teviot clear ; Ere break of day , " the warrior ' gan say , " Again will I be here : And ...
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... - bed laid ; They would rend this Abbaye's massy nave , And pile it in heaps above his grave . " I swore to bury his Mighty Book , That never mortal might therein look ; And never to tell where it was hid , Save 30 LAY OF THE.
... - bed laid ; They would rend this Abbaye's massy nave , And pile it in heaps above his grave . " I swore to bury his Mighty Book , That never mortal might therein look ; And never to tell where it was hid , Save 30 LAY OF THE.
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Page 89 - 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...
Page 285 - Part we in friendship from your land, And, noble earl, receive my hand." But Douglas round him drew his cloak, Folded his arms, and thus he spoke: "My manors, halls, and bowers shall still Be open, at my sovereign's will, To each one whom he lists, howe'er Unmeet to be the owner's peer. My castles are my king's alone, From turret to foundation-stone; The hand of Douglas is his own, And never shall in friendly grasp The hand of such as Marmion clasp.
Page 303 - The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swell'd the gale, And — STANLEY ! was the cry. A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye ; With dying hand above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted " Victory ! Charge, Chester, charge ! On, Stanley, on ! " Were the last words of Marmion.
Page 428 - Then each at once his falchion drew, Each on the ground his scabbard threw, Each looked to sun, and stream, and plain, As what they ne'er might see again; Then foot, and point, and eye opposed, In dubious strife they darkly closed.
Page 25 - When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while...
Page 242 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best, And save his good broadsword he weapons had none ; He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 352 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven : And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! XXII.
Page 102 - And glimmered all the dead men's mail Blazed battlement and pinnet high, Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair — So still they blaze, when fate is nigh The lordly line of high St. Clair.
Page 314 - 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 243 - 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!