 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
 | James Madison Watson - 1876 - 346 Seiten
...— And the rich came not to woo : But honored well are charms to sell, If priests the selling do. 4- Now walking there was one more fair — A slight girl,...And she had unseen company To make the spirit quail : l 'Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn,2 And nothing could avail. 5. No mercy now can clear her... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1876 - 348 Seiten
...— And the rich came not to woo : But honored well are charms to sell, If priests the selling do. 4. Now walking there was one more fair — A slight girl,...And she had unseen company To make the spirit quail : x 'Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn,3 And nothing could avail. 5. No mCrcy now can clear her... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1876 - 348 Seiten
...— And the rich came not to woo : But honored well are charms to sell, If priests the selling do. 4- Now walking there was one more fair, — A slight...lily-pale ; And she had unseen company To make the spirit quail:1 'Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn," And nothing could avail. 5, No mercy now can clear... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 522 Seiten
...If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair — A slight girl, lily-pale ; A'ld she had unseen company To make the spirit quail —...Want and Scorn she walk'd forlorn, And nothing could urail. No mercy now can clear her brow _ For this world's peace to pray ; I For, as love's wild prayer... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 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, lily-pale ; And she had unseen company 'Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forTo make the spirit quail : t Want ana lorn, And nothing could avail.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 Seiten
...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 pence to pray ; For, as love's wild prayer dissolved in air, Her woman's heart gave way ! — But the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1879 - 336 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 300 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. For, as love's wild prayer dissolved in air, Her woman's heart... | |
 | 1879 - 328 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 Seiten
...honored well are charms to sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair, — Л hat wraps this moveless scene. Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, walked forlorn, Ami nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to... | |
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