 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...  Curiosities of Literature - 461. oldalszerző: Isaac Disraeli - 1807Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Herbert Grey - 1860 - 312 oldal
...Rose. " You remember the lines;— ' Robed in the gable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood. Loose his beard, and hoary hair, Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air.' " Her imagination was soon stirred — I delighted to evoke it. As she grew to know me well enough... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1861 - 602 oldal
...suburb of Claphani, to render him the very incarnation of the well - known couplet in Gray's ode on "The Bard :" — " Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air ;" only, that for hoary it should be read silvery — silvery as the thrice-driven snow. And under... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 oldal
...o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Eobed 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 poet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. Hark how each giant oak... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 oldal
...increaseth sorrow. — Eccleliastes i. 18. t Words that weep and .tears that speak. COWLEY. The Prophet. THE BARD. Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air.* Part i. St. 2. Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes ; Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 434 oldal
...Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Eohed in the sable garb of wo, 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 fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark how each... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 oldal
...poets to death. 2 Gloucester, son-in-law to Edward. 3 Mortimer, one of the Lords Marchers of Wales. (Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air ; ) And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark how each... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 oldal
...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 poet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. Hark how each giant oak... | |
 | Acrostics - 1867 - 302 oldal
...it speaks to the heart, And bids it prepare from this world to depart. HSQ 275. TRIPLE ACROSTIC. " Loose his beard and hoary hair, Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air." " Once in Tara's halls the soul of music shed." " A chieftain's daughter seemed the maid." 1. What... | |
 | John Milton, Alex Monfries - 1867 - 120 oldal
...9. (I) 'Faery Queen,' ii. 9, 2 — ' Full lively is the semblant though the substance dead. ' (2) ' Loose his beard, and hoary hair, Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air.' — Gray. ' The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn.' — Campbell. (3) ' Art thou the flag... | |
 | 1869 - 974 oldal
...imagination, and contributed to shape his own description. The elder Disraeli, however, states that " Gray tells us that the image of his ' Bard," — ' Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a METEOB to the troubled air,' was taken from a picture of the Supreme Being [in the vision of Ezokiel],... | |
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