Love
Yon Lamp Its Line of Quivering Light
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Love
YON lamp its line of quivering light
Shoots from my lady's bower ;
But why should Beauty's lamp be bright
At midnight's lonely hour?
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Codex Note
From Rob Roy (1817)
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MLA
Scott, Walter. “Yon Lamp Its Line of Quivering Light.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/148/.
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Scott, Walter. “Yon Lamp Its Line of Quivering Light.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/148/.
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