The lady of the lake, The lord of the Isles ,The lay of the last minstrel, and Marmion. With poems, notes, &c |
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... never refused a literary person of merit such services in smoothing his way to the public as were in my power : and I had the advantage , rather an uncommon one with our irritable race , to enjoy general favour , without incurring ...
... never refused a literary person of merit such services in smoothing his way to the public as were in my power : and I had the advantage , rather an uncommon one with our irritable race , to enjoy general favour , without incurring ...
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... never brooch the folds combined Above a heart more good and kind . Her kindness and her worth to spy , You need but gaze on Ellen's eye ; Not Katrine , in her mirror blue , Gives back the shaggy banks more true , Than every free - born ...
... never brooch the folds combined Above a heart more good and kind . Her kindness and her worth to spy , You need but gaze on Ellen's eye ; Not Katrine , in her mirror blue , Gives back the shaggy banks more true , Than every free - born ...
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... never love nor sorrow tame ; It danced as lightsome in his breast , As play'd the feather on his crest . Yet friends , who nearest knew the youth , His scorn of wrong , his zeal for truth , And bards , who saw his features bold , When ...
... never love nor sorrow tame ; It danced as lightsome in his breast , As play'd the feather on his crest . Yet friends , who nearest knew the youth , His scorn of wrong , his zeal for truth , And bards , who saw his features bold , When ...
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... never ! Blasted be yon Pine , My father's ancient crest and mine ; If from its shade in danger part The lineage of the Bleeding Heart ! Hear my blunt speech : grant me this maid To wife , thy counsel to mine aid ; To Douglas , leagued ...
... never ! Blasted be yon Pine , My father's ancient crest and mine ; If from its shade in danger part The lineage of the Bleeding Heart ! Hear my blunt speech : grant me this maid To wife , thy counsel to mine aid ; To Douglas , leagued ...
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... never tied . Speed , Malise , speed ! such cause of haste Thine active sinews never braced . Bend ' gainst the steepy hill thy breast , Burst down like torrent from its crest ; With short and springing footstep pass The trembling bog ...
... never tied . Speed , Malise , speed ! such cause of haste Thine active sinews never braced . Bend ' gainst the steepy hill thy breast , Burst down like torrent from its crest ; With short and springing footstep pass The trembling bog ...
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Page 53 - 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 66 - That day of wrath, .that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...
Page 13 - Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorn and hazel mingled there ; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff...
Page 92 - King James did rushing come. — Scarce could they hear or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close, — They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air; O life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.
Page 22 - 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 14 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.
Page 84 - The train from out the castle drew, But Marmion stopped to bid adieu ; — " Though something I might plain," he said, " Of cold respect to stranger guest, Sent hither by your king's behest, While in Tantallon's towers I staid ; Part we in friendship from your land, And, noble earl, receive my hand.
Page 77 - Have, then, thy wish!"— he whistled shrill, And he was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe ; From shingles...
Page 98 - While many a broken band Disordered through her currents dash, To gain the Scottish land ; To town and tower, to down and dale, To tell red Flodden's dismal tale, And raise the universal wail. Tradition, legend, tune, and song Shall many an age that wail prolong ; Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife and carnage drear Of Flodden's fatal field. Where shivered was fair Scotland's spear And broken was her shield ! xxxv.
Page 49 - With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thundercloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town...