 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! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he, neglected...  Routledge's Every Boy's Annual - Page 2801882Full view - About this book
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 330 pages
...air, Cried, "Where 's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land !" THE LAST MINSTREL. The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel...sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. o The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, welladay ! their date was fled,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 pages
...the wind was cold. The Minstrel was inlirm and old ; His wither'd cheek, and tresses gray, Seem'cl 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, welladay ! their date was fled,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1848 - 360 pages
...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. * * * He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The minstrel gazed... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...long, the wind was coiil 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 suner of Border chivalry. For, well ;iy ! their date was fled,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pages
...personages actually flourished The time occupied by the action is three nights am! three days. INTRODUCTION. THE way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old; His wilhei'd cheek, and tresses gray, Seem'd to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy,... | |
 | John White - 1850 - 192 pages
...tale To every passing villager. The squirrel leaps from tree to tree, And shells his nuts at liberty. 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,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 pages
...rp. TUNEFUL ; long « in tune, not oo. BRETHREN ; give e its short sound ; do not call it bruthrin. THE way was long, the wind was cold ; The minstrel was infirm and o\d ; His withered cheek and tresses gray Seemed to have known a better day. The harp, his sole remaining... | |
 | William Russell - 1851 - 392 pages
...eight syllables in each line, (called therefore octosyllabic,} of which the following is an example : " The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel...sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy." . A very common form of iambic verse, is the quatrain or stanza of four lines, in which the rhyme occurs... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...with any virtues, obedience, or even servility to superiors, be of the number." THE LAST MINSTREL.1 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,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...Well-a-day. Fled. Borne. Syntax. Cheek. Who sung of. Light as lark. Unpremeditated lay, Peasant's ear. 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... | |
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