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!

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Marmion, canto 6, stanza 30.

I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes round with rustling shade And apple blossoms fill the air. I have a rendezvous with Death When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

-Seeger, Alan
  'I Have a Rendezvous with Death', in the North American Review, Oct.

For she was beautifulöher beauty made The bright world dim, and everything beside Seemed like the fleeting image of a shade.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'TheWitch of Atlas', stanza12.

And shade is on the brightest wing, And dust forbids the birds to sing.

-Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa
  Fa c° ade,'Popular Song'.

And 'while the world runs round and round,' I said, 'Reign thou apart, a quiet king, Still as, while Saturn whirls, his steadfast shade Sleeps on his luminous ring.'

-Tennyson
  Poems,'The Palace of Art', stanza 4, l.13^16.

   The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

-Wordsworth,William
  'Hart-LeapWell', part 2, l.97^100.