 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 - 1880 - 352 Seiten
...And the ridh came not to woo ' But honored well are cliarms to sell, If priests the selling do. 4. Now walking the're was one more fair — A slight girl, lily-pale ; And slie had unseen company To make the spirit quail : * 'Twixt Want and Sc6rn slie walked forlorn,2 And... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 Seiten
...gold, And the rich came not to woo — But honored well are charms to sell If priests the selling do. attire; (Good, heavy silks are never dear; ) — •...desire Some shawls of true Cashmere, — Some marrowy walked forlornf And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1881 - 588 Seiten
...but gold, And the rich came not to wooBut honor'd well are charms to sell If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair — A slight girl, lily-pale ; And she hud uuseen company To inako the spirit qnail — Twixt Want an'l Scorn -]\f. wnlk'd forlorn, And uotliing... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1882 - 430 Seiten
...geld, 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...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 - 1882 - 226 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...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1882 - 616 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...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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 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 tliis world's peace to pray; For, as love's wild prayer dissolved in air, Her woman's heart gave way... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1883 - 542 Seiten
...honour'd well are charms to sell, If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more lair — A slight girl, lily-pale ; And she had unseen company...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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1883 - 602 Seiten
...gold, And the rich came not to woo. Ah, honoured well are charms to sell When priests the selling do I 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1883 - 382 Seiten
...honored well are charms to sell, If priests the selling do. Now walking there was one more fair, -o 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... | |
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