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"What remains?" cried Ivanhoe; "Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name."
Ivanhoe (1819)
Come as the winds come, when
Forests are rended,
Come as the waves come, when
Navies are stranded.
Pibroch of Donald Dhu (1816)
With every change his features play'd,
As aspens show the light and shade.
Rokeby (1813)
And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
The Monastery (1820)
Forward and frolic glee was there,
The will to do, the soul to dare.
Lady of the Lake (1810)
But woe awaits a country, when
She sees the tears of bearded men.
Marmion (1808)
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,
Easy live and quiet die.
The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
Life of Napoleon (1827)
O! many a shaft at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
The Lord of the Isles (1815)
Time rolls his ceaseless course.
The Lady of the Lake (1810)
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Soon the shroud shall lap thee fast,
And the sleep be on thee cast
That shall ne'er know waking.
Thus pleasures fade away;
Youth, talents, beauty, thus decay,
And leave us dark, forlorn, and gray.
Marmion (1808)
Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung,
Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.
Ours is no sapling, chance-sown by the fountain,
Blooming at Beltane, in winter to fade.
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit,
He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want can quench the eye's bright grace.
Marmion (1808)
Necessity — thou best of peacemakers,
As well as surest prompter of invention.
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking.
Lady of the Lake (1810)
Courtesy of temper, when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown.