All 18 Uses
bard
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The Odyssey, by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
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- let acts of gods, and heroes old, What ancient bards in hall and bower have told, Attemper'd to the lyre, your voice employ; Such the pleased ear will drink with silent joy.†
Book 1
- Why, dearest object of my duteous love, (Replied the prince,) will you the bard reprove?†
Book 1
- True to his charge, the bard preserved her long In honour's limits; such the power of song.†
Book 3
- But when the gods these objects of their hate Dragg'd to the destruction by the links of fate; The bard they banish'd from his native soil, And left all helpless in a desert isle; There he, the sweetest of the sacred train, Sung dying to the rocks, but sung in vain.†
Book 3
- A bard amid the joyous circle sings High airs attemper'd to the vocal strings;†
Book 4
- Instant, you sailors to this task attend; Swift to the palace, all ye peers ascend; Let none to strangers honours due disclaim: Be there Demodocus the bard of fame, Taught by the gods to please, when high he sings The vocal lay, responsive to the strings.†
Book 8
- Again unmann'd, a shower of sorrows shed; Conceal'd he wept; the king observed alone The silent tear, and heard the secret groan; Then to the bard aloud—"O cease to sing, Dumb be thy voice and mute the harmonious string; Enough the feast has pleased, enough the power Of heavenly song has crown'd the genial hour!†
Book 8
- Up rose nine seniors, chosen to survey The future games, the judges of the day With instant care they mark a spacious round And level for the dance the allotted ground: The herald bears the lyre: intent to play, The bard advancing meditates the lay.†
Book 8
- Meantime the bard, alternate to the strings, The loves of Mars and Cytherea sings: How the stern god, enamour'd with her charms Clasp'd the gay panting goddess in his arms, By bribes seduced; and how the sun, whose eye Views the broad heavens, disclosed the lawless joy.†
Book 8
- Thus sung the bard: Ulysses hears with joy, And loud applauses read the vaulted sky.†
Book 8
- The bard a herald guides; the gazing throng Pay low obeisance as he moves along: Beneath a sculptur'd arch he sits enthroned, The peers encircling form an awful round.†
Book 8 *
- Lives there a man beneath the spacious skies Who sacred honours to the bard denies?†
Book 8
- The Muse the bard inspires, exalts his mind; The muse indulgent loves the harmonious kind.†
Book 8
- So from the sluices of Ulysses' eyes Fast fell the tears, and sighs succeeded sighs: Conceal'd he grieved: the king observed alone The silent tear, and heard the secret groan; Then to the bard aloud: "O cease to sing, Dumb be thy voice, and mute the tuneful string; To every note his tears responsive flow, And his great heart heaves with tumultuous woe; Thy lay too deeply moves: then cease the lay, And o'er the banquet every heart be gay: This social right demands: for him the sails, Floating in air, invite the impelling gales: His are the gifts of love: the wise and good Receive the stranger as a brother's blood.†
Book 8
- There seek the Theban bard, deprived of sight; Within, irradiate with prophetic light; To whom Persephone, entire and whole, Gave to retain the unseparated soul: The rest are forms, of empty ether made; Impassive semblance, and a flitting shade.'†
Book 10
- Phemius alone the hand of vengeance spared, Phemius the sweet, the heaven-instructed bard.†
Book 22
- The moving words Telemachus attends, His sire approaches, and the bard defends.†
Book 22
- To whom Ulysses with a pleasing eye: "Be bold, on friendship and my son rely; Live, an example for the world to read, How much more safe the good than evil deed: Thou, with the heaven-taught bard, in peace resort From blood and carnage to yon open court: Me other work requires."†
Book 22
Definitions:
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(1)
(bard as in: written by the bard) someone who composes and recites or sings poems about important events and people; or (as a proper noun) ShakespeareShakespeare is sometimes called the Bard of Avon or just the Bard.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)