 Or injured Constance, bathes my head !" Then, as remembrance rose,— " Speak not to me of shrift or prayer ! I must redress her woes. Short space, few words, are mine to spare; Forgive and listen, gentle Clare!"— " Alas! " she said, " the while,—...  Marmion - Page 364by sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 364 pages
...To dubious verge of battle fought, To shrieve the dying, bless the dead. 31 Deep drank Lord Marmiou of the wave, And, as she stooped his brow to lave...gentle Clare ! ' — ' Alas ! ' she said, ' the while, — Oh, think of your immortal weal ! In vain for Constance is your zeal ; She died at Holy Isle.'—... | |
 | Charles Bernard Gibson - 1857 - 312 pages
...returns the cup, looks curiously beneath the hood of her who bore it: — "Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave, And as she stooped his brow to lave,...Clare, he said, Or injured Constance, bathes my head?" "Who art thou?" inquired he, with the fierceness of fear, after piercing with an eye of fire through... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 316 pages
...fought To shrieve the dying, bless the dead. Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave, And, as she stoop'd his brow to lave — " Is it the hand of Clare," he...gentle Clare !" — " Alas !" she said, " the while, — 0, think of your immortal weal ! In vain for Constance is your zeal ; She died at Holy Isle." —... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 pages
...1^ shrievo the dying, bless the dead. XXXL Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave, And, as she stoop'd his brow to lave— " Is it the hand of Clare," he said, "Or injured Constance, bullies my head!' Then, as remembrance rose, — " Speak not to me of shrift or prayer 1 I must redress... | |
 | Henry Stedman Polehampton - 1858 - 454 pages
...some one bathing my head ; it was Emmie, and strangely those lines of Marmion came into my head — " Is it the hand of Clare, he said, Or injured Constance bathes my head ?" And I suppose, in the connexion with these, the following lines from the same poem, — " Above... | |
 | Henry Stedman Polehampton - 1858 - 480 pages
...some one bathing my head ; it was Emmie, and strangely those lines of Marmion came into my head — " Is it the hand of Clare, he said, Or injured Constance bathes my head ?" And I suppose, in the connexion with these, the following lines from the same poem, — " Above... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1859 - 476 pages
...some one bathing my head ; it was Emmie, and strangely those lines of Marmion came into my head : ' Is it the hand of Clare, he said, Or injured Constance bathes my head?' And I suppose, in the connection with these, the following lines, from the same poem : 'Above his head... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 pages
...brought To dubious verge of battle fought, To shrieve the dying, bless the dead. Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave, And as she stooped his brow to lave —...must redress her woes. Short space, few words, are inine to spare? Forgive and listen, gentle ClareJ" "Alas!" she said, " the while,— • O think of... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1862 - 706 pages
...dubious verge of battle fought, To shrieve the dying, bless the dead. XXXI. Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave, And, as she stooped his brow to lave...spare; Forgive and listen, gentle Clare ! " " Alas I " she said, " the while,— O think of your immortal weal ! In vain for Constance is your zeal; She... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 pages
...brought To dubious verge of battle fought, To shrive the dying, bless the dead. Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave, And, as she stooped his brow to lave...are mine to spare ; Forgive and listen, gentle Clare !" — THE BATTLE OF FLODDEN. 217 " Alas ! " she said, " the while, — O, think of your immortal weal... | |
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