 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 Poets of the Nineteenth Century - Sida 152redigerad av - 1857 - 398 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1821 - 648 sidor
...conclusive as those which influenced many former annotations.— Eo. THE PHILANTHROPIST. NO. V. " O Woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the (bade By the light quivering aspen made— But when affliction wrings the brow, A ministering angel... | |
 | 1821 - 780 sidor
...«ithout whom Paradise would have bloomed and blossomed in vain, and man have lived a gloomy being. "O Woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; When sorrow marks our languid broW, A ministering angel thou. Though the rules of our institution... | |
 | 1825
...O woman ! in our hours of case, Uncertain, coy, anil hard to please, And variable as the shade I!y the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." Smith had been betrayed into the power of the Indians; he was arrayed before the sachems assembled... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 400 sidor
...yet even to many of these, the following lines are not always inappropriate or inapplicable. • Oh Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! Scott. girdle of love bursts from under the bosom ; while love is like a tree, yielding in all seasons... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 sidor
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst t" — O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made f When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents... | |
 | 1825 - 386 sidor
...destruction of her own existence ! " O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to pleas*, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen...and Anguish wring the brow, A ministering Angel thou !" i O, in the hour of death, may our pillowbe smoothed, our eyes closed, by the angelic hand of woman... | |
 | Stephen T. Mitchell - 1827 - 246 sidor
...its most brilliant flood of light and splendour. Truly did the poet speak when he observed •Oh ! woman in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and hard...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel, thou." . It was the peculiar spirit of proud acquiescence in the general feeling of hate to the existing form... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 260 sidor
...universal man has acknowledged them to be true, are the exquisite lines of our mighty minstrel. Oh 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 ! My recovery... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm graf von Bismark - 1827 - 538 sidor
...mutable goddess (1). (C) Petty warfare. The strategical object of war is the defeat of the enemy*. (1) " Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade, By the light quivering aspen made." Such is fortune, without even possessing the redeeming quality which the poet allows to the lady "... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 sidor
...the spring, To s hike my dying thirst!» — XXX. O, Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, aud hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspea made, — When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the... | |
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