 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...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Side 537redigeret af - 1806Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 382 sider
...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 his...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 sider
...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 his...wild. The old man 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... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 sider
...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 warbling made : And oft he shook...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 sider
...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...wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's eestasy ! In varving cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 sider
...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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 sider
...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...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 - 794 sider
...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 — And oft he shook...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 sider
...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 330 sider
...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...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... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1848 - 652 sider
...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... | |
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