"Such is the custom of Branksome Hall."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto i. Stanza 7.

"If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. Stanza 1.

"O fading honours of the dead! O high ambition, lowly laid!"

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. Stanza 10.

"I was not always a man of woe."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. Stanza 12.

"I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 't was said to me."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. Stanza 22.

"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."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto iii. Stanza 1.

"Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto iii. Stanza 24.

"Along thy wild and willow'd shore."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto iv. Stanza 1.

"Ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear; A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto iv. Stanza 35.

"Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto v. Stanza 1.

"True love 's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto v. Stanza 13.

"O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood!"

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto vi. Stanza 2.

"Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line."

Marmion. Introduction to Canto i.

"Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth."

Marmion. Introduction to Canto ii.

"When, musing on companions gone, We doubly feel ourselves alone."

Marmion. Introduction to Canto ii.

"'T is an old tale and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me."

Marmion. Canto ii. Stanza 27.

"When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield."

Marmion. Introduction to Canto iii.

"In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying."

Marmion. Canto iii. Stanza 11.

"Where 's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land?"

Marmion. Canto iv. Stanza 30.

"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."

Marmion. Canto v. Stanza 9.

"With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye."

Marmion. Canto v. Stanza 12.

"But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men."

Marmion. Canto v. Stanza 16.

"And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall?"

Marmion. Canto vi. Stanza 14.

"Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!"

Marmion. Canto vi. Stanza 17.

"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!"

Marmion. Canto vi. Stanza 30.

""Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion."

Marmion. Canto vi. Stanza 32.

"Oh for a blast of that dread horn On Fontarabian echoes borne!"

Marmion. Canto vi. Stanza 33.

"To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."

L' Envoy. To the Reader.

"In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand."

Lady of the Lake. Canto i. Stanza 17.

"And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace Of finer form or lovelier face."

Lady of the Lake. Canto i. Stanza 18.

"A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew."

Lady of the Lake. Canto i. Stanza 18.

"On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare."

Lady of the Lake. Canto i. Stanza 21.

"Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Morn of toil nor night of waking."

Lady of the Lake. Canto i. Stanza 31.

"Hail to the chief who in triumph advances!"

Lady of the Lake. Canto ii. Stanza 19.

"Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven."

Lady of the Lake. Canto ii. Stanza 22.

"Time rolls his ceaseless course."

Lady of the Lake. Canto iii. Stanza 1.

"Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and forever!"

Lady of the Lake. Canto iii. Stanza 16.

"The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears."

Lady of the Lake. Canto iv. Stanza 1.

"Art thou a friend to Roderick?"

Lady of the Lake. Canto iv. Stanza 30.

"Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I."

Lady of the Lake. Canto v. Stanza 10.

"And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel."

Lady of the Lake. Canto v. Stanza 10.

"Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!"

Lady of the Lake. Canto v. Stanza 30.

"Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men."

Lady of the Lake. Canto vi. Stanza 18.

"In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven."

Lord of the Isles. Canto i. Stanza 20.

"Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade."

Lord of the Isles. Canto i. Stanza 23.

"Oh, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken May soothe, or wound, a heart that 's broken!"

Lord of the Isles. Canto v. Stanza 18.

"Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!"

Bridal of Triermain. Canto i. Stanza 21.

"Still are the thoughts to memory dear."

Rokeby. Canto i. Stanza 32.

"A mother's pride, a father's joy."

Rokeby. Canto iii. Stanza 15.

"Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen."

Rokeby. Canto iii. Stanza 16.