XXII He’s made a harp of her breast-bane, Whose sound wad melt a heart of stane.
XXV He laid his harp upon a stane, And straight it began to play by lane[207].
XV O sweetly play’d the harp so fine Within her father’s hall; But still stood Lady Maisry, And let the tears down fall.
XXIII He’s ta’en three locks o’ her yellow hair, And wi’ them strung his harp sae rare.
She leaned beside the armed man, The statue of the armed knight; She stood and listened to my harp Amid the lingering light.
With pitying smiles the broken harpis brought to him.
The Irish harpno longer thrills, Or breathes a fainter tone; The clarion blast from Scotland's hills Alas!
The framework of the harpis executed with beads, and the strings with twist.
I was with him when, under the frivolous pretext of busying herself with music, she sent a man of her acquaintance, and of that of Beaumarchais, to beg him to lend her his harp for a short time.
The harp was at that time disdained, but when Beaumarchais applied to it his mechanical knowledge, he perfected it and brought it into vogue.
Gudin says: "He loved music and played upon several instruments, amongst others the harp and the flute.
A harp stood neglected at the farther end of the room, and just above hung the slender prison of one of those golden wanderers from the Canary Isles which hear to our colder land some of the gentlest music of their skies and zephyrs.
Yes; he whose life’s short span appears Mixed up with joyous smiles and tears; So interwove with doubts and fears His harp did ring; And made the world to ope’ its ears And hear him sing.
I sing not of grim-visaged war, Nor diplomatic rage, But I shall string my harpin praise Of the worthies of our age.
The patriot and the sire; And may some other harp give praise, Whose notes will sound much higher.
So, Homer-like, thy harp was wont to tune Thy native vale in glorious days of old, Whose maidens fair in virtuous beauty shone— Her sages and her heroes great and bold.
Weak bard, but thou dost try in vain To tune that mighty harp again, To try thy muse in Burns’s strain— Thou’rt far behind.
My honest Muse, Nor yet be thou servile; But tinkle up that harp again, A moment to beguile.
Is not all this as if the infernal powers should be appeased and soothed by the melody and sweetness of the Orphean harp and voice?
The skin of the harp seal (Phoca groenlandica) is also used for coats, but only when the supply of reindeerskin runs short, or when a man can afford to have an extra coat to wear in wet weather.
For thick waterproof soles the skin of the beaver or the harp seal is used.
It is not unusual for the women to display considerable taste in ornamenting their garments, using the steel-gray pelt of the harp seal to contrast with the black of the harbor seal, and so on.
The last is a very elaborate garment, made of handsomely contrasted pieces of the skin of two kinds of seals, the harbor seal and the harp seal, arranged in a neat pattern.
Thereupon wise Wainamoinen Set himself at work designing; Quick became a fish-bone artist, Made a harp of wondrous beauty, Lasting joy and pride of Suomi.
Give to me this thing of beauty, Hither bring the harp of fish-bones, Let me try my skillful fingers.
Then they sailed to Sariola, To Pohyola took the wonder, There to find the harp a master.
Then the singer of Wainola Took the harp of his creation, Quick adjusting, sweetly tuning, Deftly plied his skillful fingers To the strings that he had fashioned.
After raking the sea for it in vain, he constructed a new harp from the birch-tree, and delighted the people with his songs.
All the heroes of Pohyola, All the boys and all the maidens, Ancient dames and bearded minstrels, Vainly touched the harp of beauty.
Now Wainamoinen longed to sing to his harp to rejoice the hearts of his people, but the magic instrument had been lost in the storm conjured by Louhi.
As they hear the minstrel playing, Hear the harp of Wainamoinen, Quick they drop their combs of silver, Drop the spindles from their fingers, And the golden threads are broken, Broken are the threads of silver.
Let us take the harp to Pohya, There to find a skillful player That can touch the strings in concord.
He had spoken in her own language as the harp had spoken, and strangely, strangely she seemed to see in him the harper whose music had told her of the sorrowful land beyond the sunset.
The harp spoke in a way that the Princess Eline knew and understood, although there were no words in its tones.
Ever they had the harp to cheer the way, to urge their footsteps onward.
Clearer and more clear she felt that the harp told of a world of men where sorrow and sadness and strife were not unknown; where joy should be, and was not; where the people groped their way through darkness and thought it light.
He brought with him a harp of seven strings, on which he played to the children.
And yet again did he wonder it when he woke with a gasp in the night to find a harp in luminous paint throbbing and glowering at him from the adjacent wall.
The spirit of David's harp again breathed its divine peace on his sin-disquieted soul.
It was a voice that stole into the heart, and kept vibrating there long hours after, like an Aeolian harp just breathed upon by a dying zephyr.
When floating about in the dance, to the sound of gay, inspiring music, she thought of her sister only to pity her, and did not know that she was listening to sweeter music from Joseph's humbleharp of reeds.
Silent he towered above me, harp in hand,-- Was it a dream?
Again thy temple and thy towers arise; Heard is the harp of David in thy halls; 1070 Greater than Solomon's thy wisdom shines.
The silver harp surely, lying broken likewise on the sanded floor, soaking in the pale milky blood and torn plumage.
And then as the day was declining, While nature was wont to repose, A sage on his harp was reclining Who sang of Lochaber's bravoes.
My father had a fine ear for music, and an excellent voice, and frequently gratified our young ears, during the long winter evenings, by playing on the Jew's harp and singing the words connected with the different Highland airs.
She touched him with herharp and raised him from the ground; The shaken strings melodiously resound.
It was customary then for minstrels, at the instance of the clergy, to sing on Sundays devotional strains on the harp to the assembled multitudes.
Blest was the tenderness he felt, When to his graceful harp he knelt, And did for audience call; When Satan with his hand he quelled, And in serene suspense he held The frantic throes of Saul.
Costan of the lake, arise, take thy harp from the willow, sing the praise of Kenrick, to the sweet sound of the white waves sinking to the foundation of the black rock.
God's harp thy symbol, and thy type The lion and the bee!
Sweet is rose-ruddy wine in goblets gay, And sweet are lute and harp and roundelay; But for the zealot who ignores the cup, 'Tis sweet when he is twenty leagues away!
Softly, softly drink wine, and play the harp For those who are asleep do not find much, And none of those who are gone will ever come back.
You may indeed be taken with lips tinted with the color of the ruby, you may indeed appreciate the cup of wine, you may indeed call for the noise of the drum, the sound of the harp and of the flute, but these are only trifles.
Again the flute and harp were heard, and next a song,-- "Come and repose in the garden.
One of these statues was distinguished by the miraculous property that when struck by the rays of the rising sun it gave out sounds like those of a harp whenever chords snap in it.
The flute and harp played, then a tenor voice sang,-- "Thou art more beautiful than all the maidens who look at themselves in the Nile.
Since the poets of antiquity sang their stories or hymns to an accompaniment of their own upon the harp or lyre, they were skilled in the art of music as well as in that of verse.
If the harp is not essentially injured, I would not purchase a new one.
The accident to the harp has been very fortunate, inasmuch as it enabled you to make out a long letter on the subject.
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