 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 Seiten
...Funeral Anthem Dies Iree Page 66 69 70 71 72 74 77 79 79 80 81 82 84 ENGLISH POETRY. THE LAST MINSTEEL. THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel...Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren... | |
 | 1923 - 850 Seiten
...itself in his prosaic temperament. His most celebrated lines show the quality of his composition : — The way was long, the wind was cold. The minstrel...sole remaining joy. Was carried by an orphan boy. . . . Again, there is his description of Melrose Abbey : — If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 Seiten
...tale, and j tended greatly to cause the popularity of the poem. The minstrel is thus described : — that light shall glow On Linden's hills of stained...flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. Tie mom, but scarce dey ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 Seiten
...eight syllables in each line, (called therefore octosyllabic,) of which the following is an example : " The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old ; His wither'd cheek and tresses gray Seem'd to have known a better day. The harp, his sole remaining joy,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 Seiten
...confirmation of these remarks, we give a considerable part of the introduction to the whole poem : — " The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His wither'd cheek, and tresses gray, Seem'd to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 Seiten
...dread, fathomless, alone. THE LAST MINSTREL: His address to his Native Country. SIR WALTER SCOTT.* THE way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel...Was carried by an orphan boy ; The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry. For well-a-day ! their date was fled His tuneful brethren... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 Seiten
...roused by lute or horn, she wakes, And far away, o'er lawns and lakes, Goes answering LIGHT. Idem, 9. The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel...sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. Scott. 10. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 Seiten
...peep, And list the tale that love is telling ! THE LAST MINSTREL. THE way was long, the wind was coid, The Minstrel was Infirm and old; His withered cheek,...Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 398 Seiten
...wind was cold, The minstrel — was infirm, and old ; Hi* wither'd cheek — and tresses gray, Heem'd to have known a better day. The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried— by an orphan boy." Ve et the tender office Innf engage, To rnck the cradle of reposing ajrt ; iVirh lenient arts — extend... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 Seiten
...restore, And eyelids that are seal'd in death Shall wake, to close no more, PEABODY. THE LAST MINSTREL. THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His wither'd cheek, and tresses gray, Seem'd to have known a better day : The harp, his sole remaining... | |
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THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. 
