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" Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. "
The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal - Page 517
1876
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The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem

Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1805 - 344 pages
...art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a King had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with...
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq: The lay of the last minstrel. Ballads and ...

Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The Minstrel gazed with...
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The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq, Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He hegged his hread from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's hirchen hower: The minstrel gazed with...
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British melodies, extracts from the modern poets [signed J.H.R.].

British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ; ' And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He i-.i— i-il where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed...
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The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Volume 1

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 pages
...a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor., He begged his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with...
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The poetical works of sir Walter Scott, Volume 1

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 pages
...art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorn'd and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with...
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The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the ...

Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...unpremeditated lay : 4 A wandering harper, scorned and poor He begged his bread from dooi to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. 5 He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : 6 The minstrel gazed...
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Sketches of Persia: From the Journals of a Traveller in the East, Volume 1

John Malcolm - Iran - 1827 - 328 pages
...Stuart's throne. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear." Joozee Beg was told his offer was accepted, and after giving the horse he led to another, and taking...
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The Poetical Melange

English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ! And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with...
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The Norwich Minstrel, Containing Several Hundred of the Most Admired and ...

English poetry - 1831 - 272 pages
...* • * * A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a King had loved to hear. Amid the strings his fingers strayed, "1 And an uncertain warbling made — > And oft he shook his...
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