 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.) - 1868 - 536 pages
...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 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.) - 1868 - 398 pages
...The old man raised his face, find smiled; And lightened up his fadedeye, With all a poet's ecstacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...his wants,— were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and ages' frost, In the full tide of song were lost; Each blank, In faithless memory void. The poet's glowing... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...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 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... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 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. Kach blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thoughts supplied... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 pages
...faded eye, With all a poet's eestaey ! 90 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sonnding chords along : The present scene, the future lot,...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... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - Authors, Scottish - 1871 - 520 pages
...wtid, The old man raised his face, and smiled; And lightened up his faded eye With all a poeCs eestasy. In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...all forgot; Cold diffidence and age's frost In the fall tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 248 pages
...old man 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...forgot : Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory void,12 The poet's glowing thought supplied... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 178 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...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... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1872 - 344 pages
...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 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... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 200 pages
...glowing thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, "Twas thus the LATEST M1NSTBEL sung. In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...chords along : The present scene, the future lot, Sis toils, his wants, were all forgot : Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song... | |
| |
