 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
 | 1821
...«ithout whom Paradise would have bloomed and blossomed in vain, and man have lived a gloomy being. "O Woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; When sorrow marks our languid broW, A ministering angel thou. Though the rules of our institution... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822
...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,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 480 páginas
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst t" — O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made f When pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1827
...of universal man has acknowledged them to be true, arc the exquisite lines of our mighty minstrel. t 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 anguish wring the biotr,... | |
 | Stephen T. Mitchell - 1827 - 293 páginas
...pours forth its most brilliant flood of light and splendour. Truly did the poet speak when he observed •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 anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 251 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,... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1829
...universal man has acknowledged them to be true — are the exquisite lines of our mighty minstrel : — Ok 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,... | |
 | John Angell James - 1830 - 205 páginas
...required. Sickness may call for this, and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. " 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 anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | Adrian Russell Terry - 1834 - 290 páginas
...the support and protection of whom, she devoted herself and the whole of her moderate fortune. "' 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,... | |
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