 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...  The poetical works of sir Walter Scott - Seite 10von sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 Seiten
...feared, to try The long forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers stmyed, And an uncertain warhling made, And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1844 - 376 Seiten
...in such brilliant association, it was really like the effect produced on the ' Last Minstrel' — ' when he caught the measure wild ; The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lighted up his faded eye ;' for he became immediately excited, and all his furrowed countenance seemed... | |
 | George Willson - 1844 - 300 Seiten
...much he 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...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, 10 With all a poet's ecstasy . In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 Seiten
...security to please ; And scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wild'ring o'er his aged brain — " Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain...head. But when he caught the measure wild, The old man rais'd his face and smi1'd ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all the poet's ecstasy ! In varying... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...When he kept court in Holyrood ; And much he wish'd, yet fear'd, to try, The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain...raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his fuded eye, With all a poet's eestasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 Seiten
...much he 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...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 Seiten
...bread from door to door, And tun'd to please a peasant's ear The harp a king had lov'd to hear. Amidst the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain...head. But when he caught the measure wild, The old man rais'd his head and smil'd, And lighten'd up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 Seiten
...much he wish'd, yet fear'd, to try, The long-forgotten melody. Arnid the strings his fingers stray 'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his...And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's eestasy ! In varving cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 Seiten
...security to please ; And scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wild'ring o'er his aged brain — " Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain...the measure wild, The old man raised his face and smil'd ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all the poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 Seiten
...past, of joy and pain, Came wild'ring o'er his aged brain — " Amid the strings his fmgers stray 'd, And an uncertain warbling made — And oft he shook...the measure wild, The old man raised his face and smil'd ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all the poet's eestasy ! In varying cadence, soft or... | |
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