 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.) - 1868 - 536 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 eestasy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pages
...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 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...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 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,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 pages
...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...And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's eestaey ! 90 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sonnding chords along : The present scene,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 248 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...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 swept the sounding chords... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1871 - 520 pages
...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 eye With all a poeCs eestasy. In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present... | |
 | Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872 - 276 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 : » King Charles... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1872 - 344 pages
...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 hoary...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... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 200 pages
...wished, yet feared, 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... | |
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