 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 faithless memory void,...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 3501810Full view - About this book
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...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, He swept the sounding...all forgot : Cold diffidence and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...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, He swept the sounding...all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied;... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...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, He swept the sounding...all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost; Each hlank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extaey ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...forgot : Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 pages
...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, He swept the sounding...all forgot: Cold diffidence and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied;... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 pages
...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 the sounding...forgot : Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied... | |
 | James M'Henry - American literature - 1824 - 276 pages
...were only rendered more apparently lovely and interesting, by her attempts to conceal them. CHAP. III. In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...all forgot, Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas Urns the latest minstrel sung.... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...With all a poet's ecstasy. In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding cords along j The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot j Cold diffidence and age's frost, In the lull tide of song were lost ; Each blank in faithless memory... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...lighten'd up bis faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept Ihe sounding chords along: The present scene, the future...all forgot: Cold diffidence and age's frost In the full tide of song were lost; Each blank, iu faithless memory void. The poet's glowing thought supplied... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...With all a poet's exstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords aloug ; The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his...forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory voici, The poet's glowing thoughts supplied... | |
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