Walter Scott
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSEwas a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 August 1771
woe scene mortals
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
drinking greatness kind
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
mystery charm womanhood
Mystery has great charms for womanhood.
horse white needs
Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.
honesty rags sterling
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
listening guardian mood
In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
wrath heaven passing-away
That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.
faithful wrecks association
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
hope
The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
time courses
Time rolls his ceaseless course.
fighting names enough
In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.
grain spills covetousness
Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
royalty vain sigh
For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
groundhog-day self dust
Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.