 God ever gave to her She kept with chary care. She kept with care her beauties rare From lovers warm and true, For her heart was cold to all but gold, And the rich came not to woo : But honored well are charms to sell If priests the selling do.  Poems of Early and After Years - Seite 232von Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1848 - 410 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1884 - 408 Seiten
...gold, And the rich came not to woo — But honour'd well her charms to sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair — A slight girl,...nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow From this world's peace to pray, For as love's wild prayer dissolved in air, Her woman's heart gave... | |
 | Joseph H. Head - 1884 - 498 Seiten
...sell, If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair, — A slight girl, lily pale; And she had unseen company To make the spirit quail : Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn. And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1885 - 304 Seiten
...gold, And the rich came not to woo : But honoured well are charms to sell, If priests the selling do. " Now walking there was one more fair — A slight girl,...make the spirit quail : "Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn, And nothing could avail. " No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1886 - 480 Seiten
...the rich came not to woo— But honoured well are charms to sell If priests the selling do. •• Now walking there was one more fair— A slight girl,...lily-pale: And she had unseen company To make the spirit quail,Twixt Want and Scorn she walkedlorlorn. And nothing could artJl. NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS. " No... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 Seiten
...gold, And the rich came not to woo— But honored well are charms to sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair— A slight girl,...To make the spirit quail: 'Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 Seiten
...gold, And the rich came not to woo—- But honored well are charms to sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair — A slight girl,...To make the spirit quail : Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn, And nothing could avail. V ; ir • *<-'.' No mercy now can clear her brow For this... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1889 - 360 Seiten
...gold, And the rich came not to woo — But honour'd well are charms to sell, If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair— A slight girl,...nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow From this world's peace to pray, For as love's wild prayer dissolved in air, Her woman's heart gave... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 460 Seiten
...gold, And the rich came not to woo : But honored well are charms to sell, If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair, — .• A slight...make the spirit quail : 'Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to... | |
 | James Wells - 1890 - 264 Seiten
...village, besides Dick, -*- was a lone, middle-aged woman, the unwedded mother of two or three children. " And she had unseen company To make the spirit quail. 'Twixt want and scorn, she walked forlorn, And nothing could avail." She was attending the evangelistic services, and a mistress... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 298 Seiten
...gold, And the rich came not to woo; But honored well are charms to sell, If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair— A slight girl,...make the spirit quail— 'Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to... | |
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