 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...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 hoary head. But when be caught the measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lighten'd up his faded eye,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...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...the measure 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pages
...feared, to try The long forgotten melody. Amid the strings his fingers stmyed, And an uncertain warhling made, And oft he shook his hoary head. But when he...the measure 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,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1844 - 376 pages
...in such brilliant association, it was really like the effect produced on the ' Last Minstrel' — ' when he caught the measure wild ; The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lighted up his faded eye ;' for he became immediately excited, and all his furrowed countenance... | |
 | George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...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...the measure wild, The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, 10 With all a poet's ecstasy . In varying cadence, soft or... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...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...head. But when he caught the measure wild, The old man rais'd his face and smi1'd ; And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all the poet's ecstasy ! In varying... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...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...the measure 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,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...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...the measure 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1845 - 382 pages
...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...the measure 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,... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...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,... | |
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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... 
