Quotes from work

Marmion

“So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,
There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.”

“In the lost battle,
Borne down by the flying,
Where mingles war's rattle
With groans of the dying.”

“She look'd down to blush, and she look'd up to sigh,
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.”

“But search the land of living men,
Where wilt thou find their like again?”

“November’s sky is chill and drear,
November’s leaf is red and sear.”

“Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.”

“But woe awaits a country when
She sees the tears of bearded men.”

“Heap on more wood!-the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.”

“Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West,
Through all the wide Border his steed was the best.”

“O, Woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!”

“Stood for his country’s glory fast,
And nail’d her colours to the mast!”

“When, musing on companions gone,
We doubly feel ourselves alone.”

“So shall he strive, in changeful hue,
Field, feast, and combat, to renew,
And loves, and arms, and harpers' glee,
And all the pomp of chivalry.”

“And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but Death who comes at last.”

“Oh for a blast of that dread horn
On Fontarabian echoes borne!”

“For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,
Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.”

“To all, to each, a fair good-night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!”

“And darest thou then
To beard the lion in his den,
The Douglas in his hall?”

“A light on Marmion’s visage spread,
And fired his glazing eye:
With dying hand, above his head,
He shook the fragment of his blade,
And shouted "Victory!-
Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!"”