Category: Romance
"'Twere idle to remember now, Had I the heart, my thwarted schemes. I bear beneath this alter'd brow The ashes of a thousand dreams-- Some wrought of wild Ambition's fingers, Some colour'd of Love's pencil well--
"From crag to crag descending--swiftly sped Stern Conrad down, nor once he turned his head; He bounds, he flies, until his footsteps reach The verge where ends the cliff, begins...
5. CHAPTER IV.The indignant Lester, to whom the story now reverts, had no sooner left the presence of Kate Bellamont and the field of archery, than he hastened to the stables, saddled his hor...
8. CHAPTER VII."If solitude succeed to grief, Release from pain is light relief; The vacant bosom's wilderness Might thank the pang that made it less. The heart once left thus desolate Must fl...
4. CHAPTER III."Alas! the love of women! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but moc...
7. CHAPTER VI."Wild was the place, but wilder his despair: Low shaggy rocks that o'er deep caverns scowl Echo his groans: the tigress in her lair Starts at the sound, and answers with a growl."
2. CHAPTER I."Oh, bold Robin Hood Was a forester good As ever drew bow in the merry green wood, And what eye hath e'er seen Such a sweet maiden queen As Marian the pride of the forester's gr...
6. CHAPTER V."Oh God! how changed my nature with all this! I, that had been all love and tenderness-- The truest and most gentle heart till now That ever beat--grew suddenly a devil!"
1. BOOK I."'Twere idle to remember now, Had I the heart, my thwarted schemes. I bear beneath this alter'd brow The ashes of a thousand dreams-- Some wrought of wild Ambition's fingers, So...