O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Quotes from Marmion — Walter Scott
1771–1832 Scotland
27 quotes
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Marmion (1808)
When, musing on companions gone,
We doubly feel ourselves alone.
Marmion (1808)
When Prussia hurried to the field,
And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.
Marmion (1808)
To all, to each, a fair good-night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!
Marmion (1808)
Stood for his country’s glory fast,
And nail’d her colours to the mast!
Marmion (1808)
Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
Marmion (1808)
And darest thou then
To beard the lion in his den,
The Douglas in his hall?
Marmion (1808)
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
Marmion (1808)
But woe awaits a country, when
She sees the tears of bearded men.
Marmion (1808)
Thus pleasures fade away;
Youth, talents, beauty, thus decay,
And leave us dark, forlorn, and gray.
Marmion (1808)
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want can quench the eye's bright grace.
Marmion (1808)
Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?
Marmion (1808)
Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West,
Through all the wide Border his steed was the best.
Marmion (1808)
In the lost battle,
Borne down by the flying,
Where mingles war's rattle
With groans of the dying.
Marmion (1808)
And dar'st thou then
To beard the lion in his den,
The Douglas in his hall?
Marmion (1808)
Not even your Britain's groans can pierce
The leaden silence of your hearse.
Marmion (1808)
Vengeance to God alone belongs;
But, when I think of all my wrongs
My blood is liquid flame!
Marmion (1808)
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Walter Scott (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.