 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.  Art and Life: A Ruskin Anthology - Page 218by John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 593 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Gilbert Malcolm Sproat - 1871 - 144 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." The above passages, and many others which the reader can turn to, show the easy, melodious flow of... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 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! CORONACH. HE is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 134 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. * * * Hushed is the harp—the minstrel gone. And did he wander forth alone ? Alone, in indigence and... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1884 - 654 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... | |
 | Gems - 1884 - 408 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... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 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, 25» If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams... | |
 | Children's literature, American - 1884 - 530 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. THE BISHOP TELLS STORIES. THE BISHOP'S VISIT. BY MRS. EMMA HUNTINCITON NASON. TELL you about it ? Of... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 668 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's1 stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1885 - 296 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1885 - 366 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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