 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 accents said, When, with the...  Flowers of fiction - Página 1701837Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Thomas Brown (the elder, pseud.) - 1818 - 714 páginas
...may be presented to him on his road through life with his new partner, still will he have to say — Oh ! woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And varying as the uncertain shade By the light trembling aspen made, When care and sorrow rend our... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 páginas
...groom, one cup to hring Of hlessed \vater, from the spring, To slako my dying thirst !" — XXXI. 0, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variahle as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the hrew,... | |
 | 1819 - 504 páginas
...object beloved. l(1 These beautiful lines from Marmiou- .night have furnished him with the bint — " Oh Woman ! in our hours of ease, , . Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; Wlicn pain and ticknftt wring the brm,... | |
 | 1820 - 562 páginas
...real adversity, are " calm as a summer's sea, when not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface." " O woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; And variable as the shade, By the light quivering aspin made; Yet when pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | Rosalia St. Clair (pseud.) - 1820 - 258 páginas
...a note into his hand that changed his determi-nation. THE HIGHLAND CASTLE. 107 /if I CHAPTER VI. 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,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 306 páginas
...or groom, one cup to bring 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,... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 páginas
...squire , or groom , one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake 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 brow,... | |
 | 1821 - 648 páginas
...conclusive as those which influenced many former annotations.— Eo. THE PHILANTHROPIST. NO. V. " O Woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the (bade By the light quivering aspen made— But when affliction wrings the brow,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 530 páginas
...groom, one cup to bring " 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,... | |
 | Heron - 1821 - 944 páginas
...when it suddenly went off, and lodged its contents in the body of the carl K 6 CHAPCHAPTER XIV. Oli, 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,... | |
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