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,... Contributions to the Edinburgh Review - Page 359by Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 750 pagesFull view - About this book
| Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1805 - 344 pages
...The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...full tide of song were lost. Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus... | |
| English literature - 1805 - 570 pages
...wild, The old man raised his face and imil'd ; And lighted up his faded eye With all a poet's extacy. 1 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding...diffidence and age's frost In the full tide of song were lest. Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And, while his harp... | |
| 1805 - 752 pages
...! In varying cadence, foft or ftrong, He fwept the founding chords along ; - • The prefent fcene, the future lot, His toils, his wants were all forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's froft, Jn the full tide of fong were loft. Each blank in faithlefs memory void, The poet's glowing... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1805 - 692 pages
...citacy i In varying cadence, foft or ftrong, He fwept the founding chords along ; The prefent fcene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's froft, In the full tide of fong were loft. Each blank, in faithlefs memory void, The poet's glowing... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 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...forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the fall tide of song were lost. Each 1 1! i nk , in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 350 pages
...lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy 1 In varying cadence, soft or strong, He ^wept the sounding chords along : The present scene, ,the...and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost j Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive... | |
| Walter Scott - Fore-edge painting - 1806 - 342 pages
...The old man raised his face, and smiled ; And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy ! 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... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...raised hie face, and smiled, And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's eestacy ! In varyirrg cadence, soft or strong-, He swept the sounding chords along ; The present scene, the ftiture lot, Hi» toib, his wants, were all forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the ftiH... | |
| 1806 - 502 pages
...The old man raised his face and smiled j And lightened up his faded eye, With all a poet's extacy ! In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along ; ^j The present scene, the future lot ; His toils, his wants, were all forgot : Cold diffidence, and... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 788 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 chords along j The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot ; Cold diffidence, and age's... | |
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