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With woe I nightly vigils keep, Beneath thy wan, unwarming beam, And mourn, in lamentation deep, How life and love are all a dream.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

The almost universal impression produced by his book is, that Lady Byron must be a precise and a wan, unwarming spirit, a blue-stocking of chilblained learning, a piece of insensitive goodness.

From Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The unwarming sun still joyous in its light!

From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Lang, Andrew

For such a world and such a night Most fitting that unwarming light, Which only seemed where’er it fell To make the coldness visible.

From Snow-Bound A Winter Idyll by Fenn, Harry

With woe I nightly vigils keep, Beneath thy wan, unwarming beam; And mourn, in lamentation deep, How life and love are all a dream!

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert