 Twixt Want and Scorn she walk'd forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to pray ; For, as love's wild prayer dissolved in air, Her woman's heart gave way ! — But the sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven By...  Autobiography, criticism, and index - Page 417by Edgar Allan Poe - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...gold, And the rich came not to woo — But honored well are charms to sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair— A slight girl,...And she had unseen company To make the spirit quail — 'Twist Want and Scoru she walked forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 500 pages
...gold, And the rich came not to woo — But honour'd well are charms to sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair — A slight girl,...And she had unseen company To make the spirit quail — 'Twist Want and Scorn she walk'd forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear l,er... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1845 - 350 pages
...sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair — A slight girl, lily pale ; And she had unseen company To make the spirit quail — 'Twixt "Want and Scorn she walk'd forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...but gold, And the rich came not to woo — 106 107 Now walking there was one more fair — A light girl, lily-pale : And she had unseen company To make...quail — Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn, A >nl nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to pray ; For as... | |
 | Josiah Moody Fletcher - American poetry - 1847 - 148 pages
...had unseen company To make the spirit quail, — THE GOLDEN GIFT. 'Twixt Want and Scorn she walk'd forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can...clear her brow For this world's peace to pray ; For, aa love's wild prayer dissolved in air, Her woman's heart gave way ! But the sin forgiven by Christ... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1848 - 504 pages
...From lovers warm and true — For her heart was cold to all but gold, And the rich came not to woo — Now walking there was one more fair — A slight girl,...make the spirit quail — 'Twixt Want and Scorn she walk'd forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - Bible - 1859 - 290 pages
...sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair — A slight girl, lily -pale ; And she had unseen company • %. ' • ' To make the spirit quail — 'Twixt Want and Scorn she walk'd forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 438 pages
...wooBut honoured well are charms to sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there wag one more 1 A slight girl, lily-pale; And she had unseen company To make the spirit quail — 'Twlxt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn. And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - American poetry - 1850 - 380 pages
...From lovers warm and true — (133) But honor'd well are charms to sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair — A slight girl,...make the spirit quail — "Twixt Want and Scorn she walk'd forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 462 pages
...to sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair — A slight girl, Illy-pale; And she had unseen company To make the spirit quail — Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlor», And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peacс to pray... | |
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