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
wine needs red
Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.
men names he-man
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
adversity presence-of-mind tempest
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
respect warrior joy
Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
horse white needs
Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.
play knows
As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
pain light dazzle
Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
spring causes fierce
Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
christmas sports xmas
England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
pain angel light
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!
heart hands stout
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
pain suits vain
Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
country names feet
My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
country hands land
Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!