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... A History of American Literature - Page 148by Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 513 pagesFull view - About this book
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...save the sweet and consolatory dictates of the purest pity and compassion for suffering humanity. " 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... | |
| 1835 - 700 pages
...appointed burden I Compare the beautifully delicate, but still kindred lines of Sir Walter Scott — ' 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,... | |
| 1808 - 416 pages
...injured Clara alone remains — he cries for water to slake his thirst, on which the poet exclaims: * 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,... | |
| 1808 - 546 pages
...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,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1808 - 526 pages
...groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" — • XXXI. 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,... | |
| 1808 - 596 pages
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Pf blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !"— {5, 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 die brow,... | |
| 1808 - 742 pages
...or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring. To »Ukc my d\ ir.g. thirst t • _0, woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade Bv the light quivering aspen imde; When pain and anguiih wring ihe hrow,... | |
| Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 pages
...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,... | |
| 1809 - 518 pages
...assiduity towards them, 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,... | |
| 1809 - 914 pages
...nurst, Page, squire, or 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... | |
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