 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...  The Literary Panorama - Page 611808Full view - About this book
 | 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, A ministering angel thou... | |
 | 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, A ministering angel thou... | |
 | 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, A ministering angel thou... | |
 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 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, A ministering angel thou... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...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 , A ministering angel thou... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 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, A ministering angel thou... | |
 | Adam Neale - France - 1809 - 514 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, A ministering angel then.... | |
 | France - 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, A ministering angel thou.... | |
 | Henry William Lovett - Sin - 1810 - 190 pages
...Without sorrow, we could never know half the value of heaven's last best gift to man : — . " Oh, woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; 136 And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the... | |
 | 1811 - 550 pages
...SKETCHES OF DISTINGUISHED PERSONS. ilOClAPHICAL SKETCH OF MADAME DE STAHL. " O ! woman ! in our hour* of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade. By the light, quivering a«pen made : When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou."... | |
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