 Sage counsel in cumber, Red hand in the foray, How sound is thy slumber ! Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and for ever ! * Or corn.  The Lady of the Lake;: A Poem - Page 122by Walter Scott - 1810 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...be surmised, all retrospection is now unavailing. • The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that arc hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in...The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searesi, But our flower was in flushing When blighting was nearest! Like, the dew on the mountain,... | |
 | John Gamble - Dublin (Ireland) - 1826 - 374 pages
...little correction from the hand of taste, it would have spoken nearly such language as the following : The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are...flower was in flushing When blighting was nearest. Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pages
...re-appearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow,, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood and glory ; The autumn winds rushing, Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...re-appearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary,...the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory ^ The .1111 inn» winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searcst, But our flower was in Hushing, When blighting... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...re-appearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary,...When blighting was nearest. Fleet foot on the correi, (a) Sage counsel in cumber, Red hand in the foray, How sound is thy slumber ! Like the dew on the mountain,... | |
 | Alexander Laing - 1828 - 492 pages
...font re-appearing, From the rain drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow. The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary,...the weeper • Wails manhood in glory. The autumn wind rushing Waft the leaves that arc scarcst ; But our flower was in flushing . When blighting was... | |
 | Mrs. Monkland - 1828 - 310 pages
...as a friend, that the time must come, when they will be obliged to hear it as an enemy. CHAPTER XII. The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary,...But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory. SIR WALTER SCOTT. AT the usual hour, unfit as he was for such exertion, Marriot went out to his court,... | |
 | 1828 - 244 pages
...experiment which may, perhaps, prove of service to him. Ed. THE YOUNG VICTIM. "The Autumn wind rushing Wafts the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing When blighting was nearest." Moore. " A brother's and a sister's love is much." When we behold the pale hand of death drawing his... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...re-appearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary,...The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are scares!, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest. Fleet foot on the correi,* Sage... | |
 | Charles Granville Gepp - English poetry - 1830 - 194 pages
...sorrow, and to thee, Duncan, no morrow (crastina dies). — See Aids vI. EXERCISE CVI. (same continued). The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary...weeper Wails manhood in glory. The Autumn winds rushing 5 Waft the leaves that are searest ; But our flow'r was in flushing, When blighting was nearest ! 1,... | |
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