 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
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 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,...And she had unseen company To make the spirit quail — 'Twist Want and Scoru she walked forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 500 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,...And she had unseen company To make the spirit quail — 'Twist Want and Scorn she walk'd forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear l,er... | |
 | 1846 - 302 Seiten
...but gold, And the rich came not to woo — 100 107 Now walking there was one more fair — A light 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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 438 Seiten
...wooBut honoured well are charms to sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there wag one more 1 A slight girl, lily-pale; And she had unseen company To make the spirit quail — 'Twlxt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn. And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850 - 642 Seiten
...And the rich came not to woo. Ah, honored well are charms to sell When priests the selling do ! How, 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 pray... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 462 Seiten
...to sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair — A slight girl, Illy-pale; And she had unseen company To make the spirit quail — Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlor», And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peacс to... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...gold, And the rich came not to woo— But houor'd well are charms to sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair — A slight girl,...Scorn she walk'd forlorn, And nothing could avail. KTo mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to pray ; For, as love's wild prayer dissolved... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 474 Seiten
...well are charms to sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair— A »light 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 merey now ean clear her brow For this world'» peace to... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1857 - 628 Seiten
...gold, And the rich came not to woo. Ah, honored well are charms to sell When 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 pray... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 Seiten
...gold. And the rich came not to woo — Hut honoured well arc 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. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to pray ; For, as love's wild... | |
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