 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
 | George Carter Howland - English language - 1908 - 328 pages
...lingering by my tomb. The hill, the vale, the tree, the tower, Glowed with the tint of evening's hour. The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot. Lake and mountain give no sign. The robin and the bluebird, piping loud, Filled all the blossoming... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Poetry - 1910 - 280 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... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Elocution - 1911 - 458 pages
...measure wild, And lighten'd up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy! In varying cadence, soft and strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present...toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, an<l age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost, Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...The old man raised his face and smiled; And lightened up his faded eye With all a poet's ecstasy! 90 " full tide of song were lost; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied;... | |
 | William Henry Schofield - Biography & Autobiography - 1920 - 408 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...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 - 1923 - 824 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... | |
 | Marguerite Wilkinson - Poetry - 1925 - 346 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:... | |
 | Saskatchewan. Department of Education - Education - 1910 - 260 pages
...The old man raised his face, and smiled, And lighten'd up his faded eye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along; Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost; Each blank in faithless memory... | |
 | Ann Rigney - History - 2001 - 236 pages
...sings an ancient romance, both he and his listeners are transported in spirit back to the Middle Ages: The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his...all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost. When the minstrel has finished his song, he sets up house in a cottage... | |
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