 On a rock, whose haughty brow, Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood ; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air) And with a Master's hand, and Prophet's...  Readings on Poetry - Page 152by Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - 1816 - 212 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...|>oet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Str*an»M, like a meteor, to the troubled air) ; BOOK II. t the billows and the sky. § 3. Edwin and Angdma. A Ballad. Goldsmith ' Tu»jr, g ' Hark, how each giant-oak, and desert cave ' Siglii to the torrent's awful voice beneath! ' O'er thee,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pages
...sable garb of woe, - With haggard eyes the poet stood ; - ( Loose his beard ', and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air') And with a master's...prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. " Hark, how each giant-oak, and desert cave, S'zhi to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee,oh... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air) And with a master's...prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. GRAY'S Odes. Beauty. In wit, as nature, what affects our hearts, Is not th' exactness of peculiar parts:... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pages
...woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard', and hoary hair Stream'd, like a mr-teor, s did, and " Hark, how each giant-oak, and desert cave, Schs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'erthee.oh... | |
 | Evan Jones - 1810 - 176 pages
...discrimination. . ' THE BARD. CHAP. I. • '- Rob'd in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood : And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. (,'ja* IjOUD howled the hollow blast, as it swept through the lofty cedars of the mountain Cwrn Ysom;... | |
 | William Bingley - 1814 - 572 pages
...the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes, the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream 'd like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's...prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. From hence we returned to the road, and proceeded onward over a mountainous, though not either very... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1817 - 432 pages
...the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes tini poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air) And with a master's...prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. Let the living muses speak for themselves ; I have all the warmth of a friend, but not the presumption... | |
 | John Hughes - 1818 - 378 pages
...the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor, to the troubled air ; And with a master's...prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. But still there are not wanting a few among the mountains of Cambria, possessed of the poetic flame.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pages
...the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air) And with a master's...prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark, how each giant oak, and desert cave, ' Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! ' O'er... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pages
...the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air) And with a master's...prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark, how each giant-oak, and desert cave, Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee,... | |
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