In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in... The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 515edited by - 1806Full view - About this book
| John Relly Beard - 1848 - 652 pages
...1 Amid the strings his fingen strayed, And an uncertain warbling made ; And oft he shook his hoejy head. But when he caught the measure wild, The old man raised hia face and smiled, And lightened up his faded eye 'With all a poet's ecstacy 1* The admirable artistic... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...wished, yet feared, to try The long forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary...soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along Tin- present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot : Cold diffidence, and age's... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 pages
...wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made ; • And oft he shook his...And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along ; The present scene,... | |
| John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pages
...wish'd, yet fear'd, to try The long forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary...wild, The old man raised his face and smiled; And lighten'd up his faded eye, "With all a poet's ecstasy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...wish'd, yet fear'd, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...yet fear'd, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uneertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary head. But...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadenee, soft or strong, He swept... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...every string's according glee Was blended into harmony. Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary head : But when he caught the measure wild, DESCRIPTION OF MELKOSE ABBEY. If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight... | |
| Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...melody. Amid the strings liis fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook lib hoary head. But when he caught the measure wild, The old man raised ms face, and smiled ; tïve of the ancient Lord* of Bucclench, and widow of the unfortunate James,... | |
| Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 208 pages
...a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear ! Amidst the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made ; And oft he shook his hoary...he caught the measure wild, The old man raised his head and smiled, And lighted up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 pages
...the strings his fingers strav'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook hi* hoary hea I. But when he caught the measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; live of the ancient Lord? of BII "-clench, and widow of the untor.uuate James. Duke of Monmuiuh,... | |
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