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
respect warrior joy
Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
war son scotland
Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!
love war knights
So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.
love war fairs
For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.
war games sides
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
war triumph hail
Hail to the chief in triumph advances.
life war gay
In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
dance war lord
O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?
warrior fire notes
Warriors! and where are warriors found, If not on martial Britain's ground? And who, when waked with note of fire, Love more than they the British lyre?
war past may
A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
war flying dying
In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.
dead footsteps foreign hath heart himself home man native soul wandering whose within
Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand?
faithful lady lovely trusting wish
To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true.
ability age-and-aging among both growth himself mature maturing others phases relationship understanding until unto
One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.