"Bard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; Enough that he heard it once: we shall hear ...
— The Poetry Of Robert Browning • Stopford A. Brooke
... considered, in the East, a sine qua non of health; and old Anglo-Indians are unanimous in their opinion of the "bard fajar" (as they mispronounce the dawn-clearance). The natives of India, Hindus (pagans) and Hindis (Moslems), unlike Europeans, accustom themselves to evacuate twice a day, evening as well as morning. This may, perhaps, partly account for their ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... the poet's meed? Such, Bard of Alloway, was thine! The soul that sings, the heart must bleed, Or tend the ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859 • Various
... of Ireland's genius will write itself in epic all across the land, with songs for every hillside, and stories for every vale and grove. Here our more passionate and poetic force will break forth in the lives of Find, son of Cumal, the lord of warriors; in his son Ossin, most famous bard of the western lands, and Ossin's son Oscar, before whose might even the fiends and sprites cowered back dismayed. As the epoch of Cuculain shows us our valor finding its apotheosis, so shall we find in Find and Ossin and Oscar the perfect flower of our genius for story and song; for romantic ...
— Ireland, Historic and Picturesque • Charles Johnston
... happened that Lamb and Coleridge were intimately associated. Lamb's first poems appeared in a volume of Coleridge's. Lamb repaid the debt by his tribute to Coleridge in his letters. There he has aptly described him as a "logician, metaphysician and bard." It so happened that both friends, who were almost of the same age, died ...
— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson
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