 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
 | Readers - 1899 - 408 pages
...wild, The old man raised his head and smiled ; And lighted up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy! 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.... | |
 | Readers - 1899 - 434 pages
...wild, The old man raised his head and smiled; And lighted up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy! 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.... | |
 | James Hay - Novelists, Scottish - 1899 - 378 pages
...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, 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;... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...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, 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.... | |
 | David Salmon - English language - 1899 - 296 pages
...' said jesting Pilate. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood. The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot. If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight. Thy secret keep ; I urge... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 782 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... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1900 - 622 pages
...The old man raised his face and smiled; And lightened up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy I 90 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...along: The present scene, the future lot, His toils, liia wants, were all forgot; Cold diffidence and age's frost In the full tide of song were lost; Each... | |
 | Walter Scott - English Literature - 1900 - 618 pages
...The old man raised his face and smiled; And lightened up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy ! 90 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, HU toils, bis wants, were all forgot; Cold diffidence and age's frost In the fall tide of song were... | |
 | George Pliny Brown, Charles De Garmo - English language - 1900 - 268 pages
...blew behind, But n0 sweet bird did follow, Nor any day, for food or play, Came to the mariner's hollo. The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot. The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts are gleaming with purple and gold,... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 686 pages
...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, 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... | |
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