He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The font, reappearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes... The Lady of the Lake: A Poem - 118 ページWalter Scott 著 - 1810 - 433 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
| Arthur James Johnes - 1846 - 348 ページ
...the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. " Fleet foot on the corrie Sage counsel in cumber Red hand in the foray, How sound is thy slumber! " To this passage Sir Walter Scott has added the following note: f " Corrie or Cori. The hollow side... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 ページ
...would object, too, to such an accumulation of strange words as occurs in these three lines : — " ' Fleet foot on the correi; Sage counsel in Cumber ; Red hand in the foray,' " &c. Nor can we relish such babyish verses as " ' He will return : — dear lady, trust : — With... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 ページ
...peculiarities, falling into disuse, unless in remote districts. 1 Bell's fire, or Whitsunday. ^Hallowe'en. The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary,...flushing, When blighting was nearest. Fleet foot on the correi,1 Sage counsel in cumber, Red hand in the foray, How sound is thy slumber ! Like the dew on... | |
| John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 ページ
...reappearing, From the rain drops shall borrow ; But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow I The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary...The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are serest ; But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest 1 Sir W. Scott. V. SPRING. Now... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 ページ
...font, reappearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow 1 charm to stay the morning star In his steep courue t So long Toice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory ; The autumn winds rushing, Waft the leaves that are searest,... | |
| Scottish songs - 1852 - 356 ページ
...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, Sa^e counsel in cumber, Red hand in the foray, How sound is thy slumber ! Like the dew on the mountain,... | |
| Henrietta Keddie - 1852 - 896 ページ
...with the realities of Aunty Moffat's yet comely bulk, and placid, pointless accents. CHAPTER XVII. The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary,...flower was in flushing When blighting was nearest. SCOTTISH SONG. JULY had reached its meridian splendour ; the corn in the fields in the neighbourhood... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 ページ
...reappearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! 2. The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary,...flower was in flushing When blighting was nearest. 3. Fleet foot on the correi,* Sage counsel in cumber,t Red hand in the foray ,t How sound is thy slumber... | |
| Susan Ferrier - 1852 - 446 ページ
...racking suspense, the son of many hopes, the heir of many honours, was a lifeless lump of clay ! " The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary,...flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest." It was some time ere Glenroy could fully comprehend the fact that Norman — the gay, the blooming,... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - 1852 - 322 ページ
...experience a life of energetic Christian usefulness as the happiest that this short-lived world affords. " The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary;...But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory." c2 CHAPTER VII. " I've seen yon weary winter's sun Twice forty years return ; And every year has added... | |
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