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
death art rivers
Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!
running successful europe
What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
war flying dying
In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.
southern fine-words fine
There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
lasts last-words stanley
"Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion.
lying awful mystery
Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!
race mutual-help fellow-man
The race of humankind would perish did they cease to aid each other.
eyelashes long important
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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.
fighting land patriotism
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
nature poet celebrate
Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.
country men tears
But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.
long storm frost
Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.
doubt born scorn
And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.