The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, 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... The Saturday Magazine - Sivu 591837Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 sivua
...chivalry. For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead ; 10 And he, negleeted and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest....courted and caressed, High placed in hall, a welcome gnest, He ponred, to lord and lady gay, The uupremeditated lay : Old times were changed, old manners... | |
| Henry William Dulcken - 1870 - 236 sivua
...by an orphan boy ; The last of all the bards was he, Who sung of border chivalry ; For, welladay ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were...and at rest. No more on prancing palfrey borne, He caroll'd light as lark at morn ; No longer courted and caressed, High placed in ha]l, a welcome guest,... | |
| Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872 - 276 sivua
...by an orphan boy ; The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were...; No longer, courted and caressed, High placed in hull, a welcome guest, He poured, to lord and lady gay, The unpremeditated lay : Old times were changed,... | |
| Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 sivua
...carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he, Who sung of border chivalry. For, well-a-day! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were...light as lark at morn; No longer courted and caressed, High-placed in hall — a welcome guest — He poured to lord and lady gay, The unpremeditated lay.... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 178 sivua
...carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, welladay ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he, neglected and oppress'd, Wish'd to be with them, and at rest. No more on prancing palfrey borne, He caroll'd, light... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 208 sivua
...by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he, neglected and oppress'd, Wish'd to be with them, and at rest. No more on prancing palfrey borne, He caroll'd, light... | |
| School board readers - 1872 - 200 sivua
...by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he, neglected and oppress' d, Wished to be with them, and at rest. No more on prancing palfrey borne, He caroll'd, light... | |
| Alfonzo Gardiner - 1872 - 104 sivua
...lesson (past part, after have). Tom made a kite to fly (infinitive after made). Ex. 47. Parse. — " No more on prancing palfrey borne, He carolled light as lark at morn." " I remember, I remember, The house where I was . born, The little window where the sun Came i'eeping... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1873 - 348 sivua
...orphan boy. The last of all the bards — was he Who sung — of Border chivalry. For, toeii-a-day ! their date — was fled, His tuneful brethren —...and at rest. No more, — on prancing palfrey borne, Ho caroled, — light as lark — at morn ; No longer, courted — and caressed, High placed in hall,... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1877 - 992 sivua
...by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he Who sung of Border chivalry, — For well-a-day their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were...neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them and at restNo more on prancing palfrey borne, * He caroled, light as lark at mom ; No longer, courted and... | |
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