 | Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1881 - 348 pages
...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 fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre : " Hark, how each... | |
 | Historical ballads - 1882 - 308 pages
...o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable5 garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair, Streamed like a meteor" to the troubled air) 1 Pitiless. 2 Victory or conquest is here personified as flying over Edward's army. 1 Vain splendour.... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 326 pages
...o'er cold 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 fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. " Hark, how each... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American literature - 1883 - 542 pages
...iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright." Gray tells us that the image of his bard, where " Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air," was taken from a picture by Raphael : yet the beard of Hudibras is also likened to a meteor : — "... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 498 pages
...o'er cold 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 fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. 1 The hauberk was... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) - 1883 - 538 pages
...behind "), or " hairy champions," or the hair of warriors streaming behind them as they rode to battle ("His beard and hoary hair streamed like a meteor to the troubled air": Gray), leadership seems to be the notion involved. When the people willingly offered themselves. —... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott - Bible - 1883 - 538 pages
..."), or '• hairy champions," or the hair of warriors streaming behind them as they rode to battle (" tumult ? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli. (is) Now Eli was Gray), leadership seems to be the notion involved. When the people willingly offered themselves. —... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...Though fanned by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. The Bard. I. 1, Line 1. Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air.1 I. 2, Line 5. To high-born Hoel's harp, or soft Llewellyn's lay. Line U. Dear as the light that... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...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 fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark, how... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed 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. ' Hark, how... | |
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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... 
