 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
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 Seiten
...melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook Ills hoary head. But when he caught the measure wild. The old man raised his face, find smiled; And lightened up his fadedeye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 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...wild, The old man raised his face and smiled : And lighted up his faded eye, With all a poetl ecstasy. In varying cadence, soft or strong. He swept the... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 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...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 Seiten
...strings his fingera strayed, And an uncertain warbling made, 86 And oFt be shook his hoary head. Bnt 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 eestaey ! 90 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 248 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,11 With all a poet's ecstasy ! 90 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1871 - 520 Seiten
...much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the stringy his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made ; And oft he shook his hoary head. But, wlien he caught the measure wtid, The old man raised his face, and smiled; And lightened up his faded... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1872 - 344 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 lighted up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the... | |
 | Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872 - 276 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...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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1873 - 348 Seiten
...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...hoary head : But when he caught the measure wild, r The old man raised his face, and smiled; And lightened up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy/... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1873 - 798 Seiten
...security 10 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...warbling made — And oft he shook his hoary head. Bui when he caught the measure wild, The old man rais'd his face and smil'd ; And lightened up his... | |
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