 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 400 lapas
...following lines are not always inappropriate or inapplicable. • Oh Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; And variable...the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! Scott. girdle of love bursts from under... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 lapas
...Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst t" — O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, 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 lapas
...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 made ; When Pain and Anguish wring the brow, A ministering Angel thou !" i O, in the hour of death, may our pillowbe... | |
 | Stephen T. Mitchell - 1827 - 246 lapas
...of light and splendour. Truly did the poet speak when he observed •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." . It was the peculiar spirit of proud... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm graf von Bismark - 1827 - 538 lapas
...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 "... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 260 lapas
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 lapas
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 lapas
...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! — Scarce were the piteous accents said,... | |
 | 1829 - 760 lapas
...and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. ' O woman ! in our liours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; AVhen pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !' '"• Unwilling, and indeed, unable... | |
 | John Angell James - 1830 - 236 lapas
...and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. " Oh woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, . And variable...the shade By the light, quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !" Unwilling, and, indeed, unable to subscribe... | |
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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... 
