 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
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 208 Seiten
...please 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...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... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 Seiten
...forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he ihook his hoary head. But when he caught the measure 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 Seiten
...Holyrood; And much he wish'd, yet fear'd, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his finger stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he caught'the measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye,... | |
 | Stephen W. Clark - 1855 - 258 Seiten
...complaints of the labor era " The sweet remembrance of the just, SHALL FLOURISH when he sleeps in dust." " But when he caught the measure wild, The old man RAISED his head, and SMILED." "And when [he was] listening to this, he WOULD often CLASP his hands in ecstasy... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 Seiten
...Holyrood ; And much he wish'd, yet fear'd, to try The long-forgotten melody. , Amid the strings his finger stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he...measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; o Francis Scott, Earl of Buccleuch, father of the Duchess. * Walter, Earl of Buccleuch, grandfather... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 Seiten
...according glee Was hlended into harmony. Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warhling made, And oft he shook his hoary head : But when he...; And lighten'd up his faded eye With all a poet's eestasy ! In varying cadence soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 Seiten
...The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed. And an uncertain warbling made, 85 And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he caught...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! 90 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1857 - 394 Seiten
...lived 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 Seiten
...much he wished, yet feared to trj 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 lighted up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 Seiten
...Good, When hu kept conrt 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 warbling made, And oft he shook lib hoary heaiL But when he caught the measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; Hve... | |
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