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" WHERE yonder ridgy mountains bound the scene, The narrow opening glens that intervene Still shelter, in some lowly nook obscure One poorer than the rest — where all are poor ; Some widowed matron, hopeless of relief, Who to her secret breast confines... "
Poems on Various Subjects - Page 40
by Anne MacVicar Grant - 1803 - 441 pages
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Specimens of British Poetesses: Selected and Chronologically Arranged

Alexander Dyce - 1825 - 472 pages
...mendicant life, by the little Society. WHERE yonder ridgy mountains bojfinl the scene, The narrow opening glens that intervene Still shelter, in some lowly...poorer than the rest — where all are poor; Some widow' d Matron, hopeless of relief, Who to her secret breast confines her grief; Dejected sighs the...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...Grant's poem of < The Highland«-.'] Where yonder ridgy mountains bound the scene, The narrow opening gh intent : For passions linked widowed matron, hopeless of relief, Who to her secret breast confines her grief; Dejected sighs the...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Grant's poem of ' The Highlander.'] Where yonder ridgy mountains bound the scene, The narrow opening times perter than before ; Whatever word you chance to drop, The travelled fool widowed matron, hopeless of relief, \Yho to her secret breast confines her grief; Dejected sighs the...
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The British Female Poets

George Washington Bethune - 1848 - 526 pages
...shelter, in some lowly nook obscure One poorer than the rest — where all are poor ; Some widowed matron, hopeless of relief, Who to her secret breast...wintry night away, And lonely muses all the summer day : Her gallant sons, who, smit with honour's charms, Pursued the phantom Fame through war's alarms,...
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The British Female Poets

George Washington Bethune - 1848 - 520 pages
...HER POEM OF THE, HIGHLA 1C DER .) WHERE yonder ridgy mountains bound the scene, The narrow opening glens that intervene Still shelter, in some lowly...poorer than the rest — where all are poor ; Some widowed matron, hopeless of relief, Who to her secret breast confines her grief ; Dejected sighs the...
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The British Female Poets

George Washington Bethune - 1865 - 516 pages
...(FROM HER POEM OF THE HIGHLANDER.) WHERE yonder ridgy mountains bound the scene, The narrow opening glens that intervene Still shelter, in some lowly nook obscure One poorer than the rest—where all are poor; Some widowed matron, hopeless of relief, Who to her secret breast confines...
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Model women

William Anderson (D.D.) - 1870 - 392 pages
...ridgy mountains bound the scene, The narrow opening glens that intervene Still shelter, in some lonely nook obscure, One poorer than the rest, where all are poor : Some widowed matron, hopeless of relief, Who to her secret breast confines her grief; Dejected sighs the...
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Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...1838. 1 120.— THE HIGHLAND POOE. Where yonder ridgy mountains bound the scene, The narrow opening glens that intervene Still shelter, in some lowly...poorer than the rest — where all are poor; Some widowed matron, hopeless of relief, Who to her secret breast confines her griof ; Dejected sighs the...
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From Thomas the Rhymer to Richard Gall

James Grant Wilson - 1875 - 622 pages
...ol>scurc, One poorer than the rest, — where all are poor; Some widowed matron, hopeless of relief, AVho to her secret breast confines her grief; Dejected...wintry night away, And lonely muses all the summer day. Her gallant sons, who, smit with honour's charms, Pursued the phantom Fame through war'salnrms, Return...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...Mrs Grant's Poem of Tke Higklandtr. Where yonder ridgy mountains bound the scene, The narrow opening ed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs....describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how widowed matron, hopeless of relief, Who to her secret breast confines her grief; Dejected sighs the...
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