 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Coimay's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of wo, e fountains tire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark, how each giant oak, and desert cave, Sighs to the... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 pages
...quiv'ring lance. 1.2. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old (Jon way's foaming flood, Robed in 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); * This Ode is founded on n tradition current In Wales,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...quivering lance. I. 2. 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...deep sorrows of his lyre : — • " Hark, how each giant-oak and desert cave Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee, O king!4 their hundred... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 616 pages
...rock, whose haughty brow, Frown» o'er old Conway'e foaming flood, KM! rd in the sabte garb of wo, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard...Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air :) And with a poet's hand and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of hie lyre." Guess my surprise, when, on my... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 562 pages
...haughty brow, Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rnbeil in the gable garb of wo, With hnggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair...Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air :) And with a poet's hand and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre." Guem my surprise, when, on my... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of wo, 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 hand, and prophet's fire, Struck... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1846 - 242 pages
...imprecation on the desolators of his country —realizing the noble picture of the poet— " Robed in sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood,...prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre." OKAY. The reign of the celebrated monarch, Brian Boru, in the tenth century, served, like that Of Alfred... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...couched his quivering lance. 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...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 giant oak,... | |
 | Edward Parry - 1847 - 378 pages
...a very pleasing sight. " 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...prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre ! " Passing by the Abbey, the occasional seat of Lord Newborough, and Bodnod, the seat of W. Hanmer,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...couch'd his quivering lance. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in 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 hand, and Prophet's tire, Struck... | |
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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... 
