The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he Who sung of... The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Página 309por Walter Scott - 1842 - 699 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Selections - 1863 - 192 páginas
...his sole remaining joy , Was carried by an orphan boy : The last-of-all-the-bards was he , Who sang of Border chivalry ; For, well-a-day ! their date...oppress'd , Wish'd to be with them and at rest . No more, on-prancing-palfrey borne , He caroll'd light as lark at morn ; No-longer courted and caress'd , High-p'.aced... | |
| 1863 - 392 páginas
...gray Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an oqjhan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of...tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest. No more, on prancing palfrey borne, He carolled light... | |
| John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 páginas
...and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he, Who sang of Border chivalry. For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead... | |
| John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 páginas
...tresses grey, Seem'd to have known a better day. WALTER SCOTT. — Introduction to the Last Minstrel. The last of all the bards was he Who sung of Border chivalry. WALTER SCOTT. — Ibid. Line 7. MIRROR. — Who teach the mind its proper force to scan, And hold the... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 páginas
...and tresses grey, Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry. For, well-a-day I their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead ; . And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished... | |
| Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1864 - 570 páginas
...we trust, rapidly diminishing : — 11 The last of all the grindors,ho, Who sang of ВАВИЛОВ chivalry. For well-a-day ! their date was fled. His tuneful brethren all were dead, And he, by just police suppressed, Moved on and gave poor inmates rest. No more by patient donkey bornu, The... | |
| 1865 - 838 páginas
...Child,"!: "Lord Ullin's Daughter," and "The Exile of * " The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carded by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he Who sing of border chivalry, )-'or well-a-day their date was fled. //-.' in in i'ii! brethren all tcei'e... | |
| Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 páginas
...and tresses groy, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy : The last of all the Bards was he,...tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest. No more, on prancing palfrey borne, He carolled, fight... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 páginas
...and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he...tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest. No more, on prancing palfrey borne, He carolled, light... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 páginas
...and tresses gray, seemed to have known a better day : the harp, his sole remaining joy, was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he,...date was fled, his tuneful brethren all were dead j There are whom fortune vainly wooes with all her pageantry, whom every flattering bliss pursues,... | |
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