 | George Wythe Munford - 1867 - 60 pàgines
...and especially of late, that I feel like the aged minstrel: "Amid the strings his fingers stray'd, And an uncertain warbling made, And oft he shook his hoary head." If I shall gain his reassured confidence, I may begin to "talk anon Of good earl Francis, dead and... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 pàgines
...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 eestasy! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pàgines
...When he kept Court in Holyrood ; And much he wished, vet feared, to try The long-forgotten 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... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pàgines
...When he kept court in Holyrood ; And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed. And an uncertain...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 pàgines
...When he kept court at Holyrood ; And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...When he kept court in Holyrood;10 And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, .^ And an uncertain...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 pàgines
...court in Holyrood ; And 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... | |
 | Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872 - 276 pàgines
...When he kept court at Holyrood ; And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, And an uncertain...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 pàgines
...When he kept court in Holyrood ; And much he wished, yet feared, to try The long-forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers strayed And an uncertain...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... | |
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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... 
