 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 ; Each blank, in...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 515edited by - 1806Full view - About this book
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 178 pages
...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 his hoary...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 208 pages
...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 his hoary...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | W. and R. Chambers (ltd.) - 1878 - 174 pages
...heart, and gave him time. , . . THE LAST MINSTREL. 121 Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary...; And lightened up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1878 - 140 pages
...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...And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! 90 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1878 - 860 pages
...his aged brain — He tried to tune his harp in vain ! Amid the strings his fingers stray'd And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye. With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - Scott, Walter - 1878 - 202 pages
...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 his hoary...wild The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten' d up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | Annie M. Lawrence - 1880 - 302 pages
...and another picture from Scott passed before me : .' ' Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary...lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy I In varying measures, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along.' " Poor old man ! he tried... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - English poetry - 1880 - 326 pages
...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 hoary...And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene,... | |
 | New national reading books - 1880 - 362 pages
...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 his hoary...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, 90. With all a poet's ecstasy ! G In varying cadence, soft or strong, He... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 pages
...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...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
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