 I rose up with the cheerful morn, No lark more blithe, no flower more gay ; And, like the bird that haunts the thorn, So merrily sung the livelong day. "If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that...  The Waverley Novels - Page 260by Sir Walter Scott - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1821 - 340 pages
...plunge the rowels in thy flanks — On, good horse, on — the devil urges us both forward.' CHAPTER V. Say that my beauty was but small, Among court ladies...scornful earl, 'twas dearly prized ? No more thou comest with wonted speed ; Thy once beloved bride to see ; But be she alive or be she dead, I fear,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1821 - 352 pages
...•'{! • ' V- ! ,': •e .uf.i t>it« CHAPTER X, ' . .''"'<• Say that my beauty was but small, .. "j Among court ladies all despised ; Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful Karl, 'twas dearjy priced ? No more thou comest with wonted speed, . Thy once beloved bride to see... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 414 pages
...horse , on — the devil urges us both forward. » I .t, even .^ling nrir at Cumnor, CHAPTER XXII. Say that my beauty was but small, Among court ladies all despised ; Why didst thon rend it from that hall, Where, scornful Earl , 'twas dearly prized? No more thou comest with wonted... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 282 pages
...And, like the bird that haunts the thorn, So merrily sung the livelong day. ' If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised ; Why didst...thou rend it from that hall Where, scornful earl, it well was prized? ' And when you to me first made suit, How fair I was you oft would say ! And, proud... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...this lonely grove, " Immur'd in shameful privity ? " No more thou com'st with lover's speed, " Tby once beloved bride to see ; " But, be she alive, or be she dead, " I fear, stern Earl's the same to thee. " Not so thc usage 1 received, " When happy in my father's hall ; " No faithless... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...And, like the bird that haunts the thorn, So merrily 'sung the livelong day. ' If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst...thou rend it from that hall Where, scornful earl, it well was prized ? ' And when you to me first made suit, How fair I was you oft would say ! And,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...And, like the bird that haunts the thorn, So merrily sung the livelong day. ' If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst...thou rend it from that hall Where, scornful earl, it well was prized? ' And when you to me first made suit, How fair I was you oft would say ! And, proud... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...And, like the bird that haunts the thorn, So merrily sung the livelong day. ' If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst...thou rend it from that hall Where, scornful earl, it well was prized ? ' And when you to me first made suit, How fair I was you oft would say ! And,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1824 - 434 pages
...VIII. Say that my beauty was but smalt, • Among court ladies all despised ; Why dids.t thou rcnrt it from that hall, Where, scornful earl, 'twas dearly prized? No more thon contest with wonted speed, Thy once beloved bride to see; But be she alive or be she dead, I fear,... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...bird that hauntes the thorne, So merrillie sung the live-long daye. Say that my beautye is but smalle, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that halle, Where (scornful earle,) it well was prizede ? And when you first to mee made suite, How fayre... | |
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