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
leadership educational school
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
wisdom children grace
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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.
storm driving blind
Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.
nature
Some touch of Nature's genial glow.
blood water
Blud's thicker than water.
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!
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?
summer morning sea
Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.
empires sun possession
The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
father israel flames
When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.
sleep night toil
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.