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
green sin grey
I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.
listening guardian mood
In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
believe marine sailor
Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
love rivers said
He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore."
boys play
The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.
vanity sorrow arguing
He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.
sleep joy
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
spring celestial sensibility
Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.
love flower hands
The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.
hours ends
Every hour has its end.
reading world annoying
If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen.
courage virtue
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
courage treason
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
children childhood taught
And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.