The poetical works of sir Walter Scott, Volume 10 |
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... poor hand Can chalice raise , or cross command , While my old voice has accents ' use , - Can Augustine forget The Bruce ? " - Then to his side Lord Ronald press'd , And whisper'd , " Bear thou this request , That when by Bruce's side I ...
... poor hand Can chalice raise , or cross command , While my old voice has accents ' use , - Can Augustine forget The Bruce ? " - Then to his side Lord Ronald press'd , And whisper'd , " Bear thou this request , That when by Bruce's side I ...
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... poor captive's bosom pass'd The thought , but , to his purpose true , He said not , though he sigh'd , " Adieu ! " XXVI . And will he keep his purpose still , In sight of that last closing ill , When one poor breath , one single word ...
... poor captive's bosom pass'd The thought , but , to his purpose true , He said not , though he sigh'd , " Adieu ! " XXVI . And will he keep his purpose still , In sight of that last closing ill , When one poor breath , one single word ...
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... poor speechless boy . Great God ! once more my sire's abode Is mine - behold the floor I trod In tottering infancy ! And there the vaulted arch , whose sound Echo'd my joyous shout and bound In boyhood , and that rung around To youth's ...
... poor speechless boy . Great God ! once more my sire's abode Is mine - behold the floor I trod In tottering infancy ! And there the vaulted arch , whose sound Echo'd my joyous shout and bound In boyhood , and that rung around To youth's ...
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... poor silent page were one , Versed in the fickle heart of man , Earnest and anxious hath he look'd How Ronald's heart the message brook'd That gave him , with her last farewell , The charge of Sister Isabel , To think upon thy better ...
... poor silent page were one , Versed in the fickle heart of man , Earnest and anxious hath he look'd How Ronald's heart the message brook'd That gave him , with her last farewell , The charge of Sister Isabel , To think upon thy better ...
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... what ' vails the world should know , That one poor garland , twined to deck thy hair , Is hung upon thy hearse , to droop and wither there ! NOTES TO The Lord of the Esles . NOTES TO Canto VI . THE LORD OF THE ISLES . 105.
... what ' vails the world should know , That one poor garland , twined to deck thy hair , Is hung upon thy hearse , to droop and wither there ! NOTES TO The Lord of the Esles . NOTES TO Canto VI . THE LORD OF THE ISLES . 105.
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Page 216 - The bride at the altar ; Leave the deer, leave the steer, Leave nets and barges : Come with your fighting gear, Broadswords and targes. Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended, Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded : Faster come, faster come, Faster and faster, Chief, vassal, page and groom, Tenant and master.
Page 209 - ... pale ; Young Frank is chief of Errington, And lord of Langley-dale ; His step is first in peaceful ha', His sword in battle keen " — But aye she loot the tears down fa
Page 295 - Far adown the long aisle sacred music is streaming, Lamenting a Chief of the people should fall. But meeter for thee, gentle lover of nature, To lay down thy head like the meek mountain lamb, When, wilder'd, he drops from some cliff huge in stature, And draws his last sob by the side of his dam.
Page 293 - Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide ; All was still, save by fits, when the eagle was yelling, And starting around me the echoes replied. On the right, Striden-edge round...
Page 204 - Then up with the Banner, let forest winds fan her, She has blazed over Ettrick eight ages and more ; In sport we'll attend her, in battle defend her, With heart and with hand, like our fathers before.
Page 252 - And scorn assumes compassion's doubtful mien, To warn me off from the encumbered scene. This must not be ; — and higher duties crave Some space between the theatre and the grave, That, like the Roman in the Capitol, I may adjust my mantle ere I fall : My life's brief act in public service flown, The last, the closing scene, must be my own.
Page 285 - Or footstep of invader rude, With rapine foul, and red with blood, Pollute our happy shore, — Then farewell home ! and farewell friends ! Adieu each tender tie ! Resolved, we mingle in the tide, Where charging squadrons furious ride, To conquer, or to die.
Page 212 - O, fear not the bugle, though loudly it blows, It calls but the warders that guard thy repose ; Their bows would be bended, their blades would be red, Ere the step of a foeman draws near to thy bed.
Page 295 - With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded, And pages stand mute by the canopied pall : Through the courts, at deep midnight, the torches are gleaming ; In the proudly-arch'd chapel the banners are beaming ; Far adown the long aisle sacred music is streaming, Lamenting a Chief of the People should fall.
Page 28 - O ! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant ! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken...