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Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye That bow'd the will. I see thee what thou art, For thou, the latest-left of all my knights, In whom should meet the offices of all, Thou wouldst betray me for the precious hilt; Either from lust of gold, or like a girl Valuing the giddy pleasure of the eyes.
She held over me the hand which bore the bloody marks of her husband's cruelty, and seemed as if she signed the cross, devoting me to destruction; while, with an unearthly tone, she uttered these words: `Widow'd wife, and married maid, Betrothed, betrayer, and betray'd!
Reginald Heber, a graceful, fine-looking, rather pale young man of twenty, with his younger brother Thomas beside him as prompter, stood in the rostrum, and commenced in a clear, beautiful, melancholy voice, with perfect declamation, which overcame all the stir and tumultuous restlessness of the audience by the power and sweetness of words and action: "Reft of thy sons, amid thy foes forlorn, Mourn, widow'd queen; forgotten Zion, mourn.
In high dudgeon, full of fire and fury, back rushed the knight, sore under the sense of having been made an April-fool of in July; for no one in the place whereto he went, had ever heard of a widow'd Countess of Lancing; and her ladyship's acres, if any where at all, were undoubtedly not in the North Riding.
Yet, under these assurances of favour, a thrill of fear passed over her as the vision seemed to repeat, or chant, "Widow'd wife and wedded maid, Betrothed, betrayer, and betray'd, All is done that has been said; Vanda's wrong has been wroken Take her pardon by this token." She bent down, as if to kiss Eveline, who started at that instant, and then awoke.
So soon as the glover and smith presented themselves, they were admitted to the chamber in which the magistrates were assembled. A woman wails for justice at the gate, A widow'd woman, wan and desolate. Bertha. The council room of Perth presented a singular spectacle.
Of course those who rent a place in preference to purchasing it miss one of the greatest and most useful privileges the country can confer that of following in the footsteps of him who "Strove for sixty widow'd years to help his homelier brother man, Served the poor and built the cottage, rais'd the school and drained the fen."
Maltravers sprang into his boat, and the shades of night soon snatched him from the lingering gaze of De Montaigne. "Strange is the land that holds thee, and thy couch is widow'd of the loved one." EURIP. Med. 442 Translation by R. G. "I, alas!
The orphan by the oak was set, Her arms, her feet, were bare, The hail-drops had not melted yet, Amid her raven hair. "And, Dame," she said, "by all the ties That child and mother know, Aid one who never knew these joys, Relieve an orphan's woe." The Lady said, "An orphan's state Is hard and sad to bear; Yet worse the widow'd mother's fate, Who mourns both lord and heir.
Here, too is an exquisite snatch on Memory: Fond Memory, like a mockingbird, Within the widow'd heart is heard, Repeating every touching tone Of voices that from earth hath gone. Queen Catharine's Sorrow is a ballad of mournful minstrelsy. Next is the Bard's Address to his youngest Daughter, by Mr. Hogg beginning Come to my arms, my dear wee pet! My gleesome, gentle Harriet!
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