I have never seen the bard yet that did not demand his bardic right to kail-pot and spoon at every passing door.
Two Campbells and a man who says he's bard of Keppoch," he was told.
He reddened at once, pulled down his brows, and scanned the bard of Keppoch, who showed his knowledge of his advantage.
I've seen the day a bard would be free of the best and an honour to have by any one's fire.
I wasbard I'd have songs to sing to it, and all I know is one sculduddry verse on a widow that dwelt in Maam!
Not a bit abashed, the bard pulled out his dirk, and there was like to be a pretty to-do when I put between them.
Sitting cosy in taverns with friends long after, listening to men singing in the cheery way of taverns the ditty that the Leckan bard made upon this little spulzie, I could weep and laugh in turns at minding of yon winter's day.
For this do the walls of the castle to-day, No longer resound with the strains of delight; And for this does the harp of the bard once so gay, Now rest in the gloom of the stillness of night.
But now of any bard surviving, To sound their fame in lofty verse, And sound his own by sounding their's.
Cowley on the death of Crashaw: Hail, bard triumphant.
The hopes of the bard of Leeds were fulfilled at the Restoration.
Aye, in thine eyes I read it, and within thine eyes I see Thou knowest me, and the story of my life Sung by the blind old bard when I was dead, And all my lovers dust.
But no friendly spirit deigns to tune our lyre; we are condemned to dull prose, and are permitted only here and there to call in some bard of old to aid our feeble efforts.
For the bard of Avon is par excellence the poet of England.
As in a dream, he seemed to hear Agnes’ voice: “I am not a bard at all.
A stone still remains near Bethgellert, where the bard used to sit and pour forth the melody of his harp to his own inspiring lays.
The bard Rhys Coch, was his cotemporary and chosen associate in his days of woes and wanderings.
The progress of genuine Celtic scholarship during the succeeding century did the rest; and the old blind bard rejoined the mists and vapors which were the inspiration of his Muse.
This was followed by Temora, in eight books, also attributed to the great Gaelic bard Ossian; and the new Celtic fashion was established.
In Warton's "Ode" a bard relates to King Henry the traditional story of Arthur's death, and closes with these lines.
Of a truth, none but a king may vie with a king; but were he not a king, I would say that my wife was as virtuous as any lady in the kingdom, and also that I have a bard who is more skilful than all the king's bards.
And when the king knew that he was the bard of Elphin he bade Heinin, his first and wisest bard, to answer Taliesin, and to strive with him.
The bard himself and two of his fellow-warriors were all who escaped from the field.
In fact, the Bardof Avon had good reason to know why his playhouse dramas were despised by the learned, who, however, were not justified in presuming that he was ignorant of classical conventions simply because he chose to ignore them.
Erelong I’ll talk thee o’er with Dryden’s ghost; The bard will smile.
I cannot express him justly; but those who have seen may recognise Beany Dawe, the sawyer, acknowledged the bard of the north of Devon.
Now the sinless saintly rishi, deathless bard of deathless lay, Herald of the holy Vedas, Vyasa stood before their way!
If then (for hard you'll own the task) his art Can to those Embrion scenes new life impart; The living proudly would exclude his lays, And to the buried bard resign the praise.
This poem begins thus, And shall great Hallifax resign to fate, And not one bard upon his ashes wait?
The young man was so enthusiastic in the utterance of his part in the dialogue as to cause the bard to look suddenly up.
That obstacle was removed in the same year by the Duchess of Richmond's clandestine love-match with Thomas Howard; but the French lady was long in coming to a decision, and in the meantime the young Francesca Bard crossed Rupert's path.
Poor Windebank was no coward, but he had acted in a moment of panic, engendered by the terror of his young wife, and it was on his behalf that Sir Henry Bard now pleaded with {170} Rupert.
We confess that the people of that day were not blameless--nor was the bardwhom now all the nations honour.
Brother Bard And Fellow Labourer, I beg your acceptance according to promise of this autograph of our English Theocritus, Bloomfield.
