 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
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 Seiten
...And scenes, long past, ol jny mid p;iin, Came wild'ring o'er his aged brain — Amid ihe siring? hia fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made —...head. But when he caught the measure wild, The old man rais d his fare and ginil'd ; And lighten'd up his laded eye, With all the poel'a ecstasy ! In varying... | |
 | Stephen W. q (Stephen Watkins) Clark - 1847 - 242 Seiten
...of the laborers. •" 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... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1848 - 652 Seiten
...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 - 1849 - 416 Seiten
...feared, to try The long forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain wnrbling 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 ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 Seiten
...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...his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadenee, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, His... | |
 | 1852 - 782 Seiten
...to please ; And всепен, long past, ol 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 lighten'd up his... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 Seiten
...And gave him heart, and gave him time, Till every string's according glee Was blended into harmony. Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
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