 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 ページ
...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...tuneful brethren all were dead, And he, neglected and opprest, Wish'd to be with them, and at rest. No more, on prancing palfrey borne, He caroll'd light... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 ページ
...; 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...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 382 ページ
...day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan bov. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, welladay ! their...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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 ページ
...; 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...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,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 ページ
...; The harp, his sole remaining joy. Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all ihe Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, well-a-day ! their...tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he, neglected and oppress'd, Wish'd to be with iheni. and at rest! NII more, on prancing palfrey borne, He rnroll'd,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 ページ
...; 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...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... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 282 ページ
...excelling ; No longer sleep, From lattice peep, And list the tale that love is telling ! THE LAST MINSTREL. For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful...dead ; And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to he with them, and at rest. No more, on prancing palfrey borne, He carolled, light as lark at morn ;... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 330 ページ
...The harp, his 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...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 ページ
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 ページ
...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...to be with them, and at rest. No more on prancing palfry borne, He carolled, light as lark at morn; No longer courted and caressed, High placed in hall... | |
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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... 
