 | 1809 - 914 pages
...groom, one cup Of blessed water from the spring, To »lake my dying thirst!" — 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 brou , A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the... | |
 | Adam Neale - 1809 - 514 pages
...that it brought forcibly to my recollection that beautiful passage in Marmion. 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 then. ceeded to visit a house... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1812 - 376 pages
...• 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 ; And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; My guardian angel stand confest, For pain and anguish wring my breast !— The rankling... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1812 - 372 pages
...; But Redesdale ca'lm'd the tumult wild, And Liverpool look'd up and smird. O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please $ And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made j My guardian angel stand confest, . For pain and anguish wring my breast !— The rankling... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1812 - 248 pages
...regret inclin'd, To "cast one longing lingering look behind." STANZAS ON WOMAN. " O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made." WAITER SCOTT, HAST thou not mark'd the smiling deep AH tranquil and serene ; When every... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...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 the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 340 pages
...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 By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous... | |
 | 1816 - 420 pages
...circumstance, in a passage which speaks to all hearts its truth and beauty :— 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 sickness cloud the brow, A ministering angel them. WALTER SCOTT. Among the... | |
 | Elizabeth Thomas - 1816 - 312 pages
...the conversation then took a different turn. CHAP. XXI. Oh •woman, in our hours of ease, Uneertain, 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 tuuu. BCOTT. SIR CHARLES gradually... | |
 | 1824 - 462 pages
..."BACHELOR'S FARE," FPAfcA appeared in the KaleUolcopc of February 11, 1823. Oh, 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 sickness wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. Scott. Though endless... | |
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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... 
