All 15 Uses
bard
in
Dante's Inferno -- translated by Cary
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- A bard
Was I, and made Anchises' upright son
The subject of my song, who came from Troy,
When the flames prey'd on Ilium's haughty towers.†Canto 1.1-11 - I to him in few:
"Bard!†Canto 1.1-11 - I thus began: "Bard!†
Canto 1.1-11
- "Now let us to the blind world there beneath
Descend;" the bard began all pale of look:
"I go the first, and thou shalt follow next."†Canto 1.1-11 - Meantime a voice I heard: "Honour the bard
Sublime!†Canto 1.1-11 - This is that Homer, of all bards supreme:
Flaccus the next in satire's vein excelling;
The third is Naso; Lucan is the last.†Canto 1.1-11 * - When I had heard my sage instructor name
Those dames and knights of antique days, o'erpower'd
By pity, well-nigh in amaze my mind
Was lost; and I began: "Bard!†Canto 1.1-11 - Such were their words;
At hearing which downward I bent my looks,
And held them there so long, that the bard cried:
"What art thou pond'ring?"†Canto 1.1-11 - This said, in silence he remain'd
Their breast they each one clawing tore; themselves
Smote with their palms, and such shrill clamour rais'd,
That to the bard I clung, suspicion-bound.†Canto 1.1-11 - But I my steps towards the ancient bard
Reverting, ruminated on the words
Betokening me such ill.†Canto 1.1-11 - To the bard rever'd
I turned me round, and thus he spake; "Let him
Be to thee now first leader, me but next
To him in rank."†Canto 1.12-22 - First somewhat pausing, till the mournful words
Were ended, then to me the bard began:
"Lose not the time; but speak and of him ask,
If more thou wish to learn."†Canto 1.12-22 - The bard to left
Held on his way, and I behind him mov'd.†Canto 1.12-22 - More rueful was it not methinks to see
The nation in Aegina droop, what time
Each living thing, e'en to the little worm,
All fell, so full of malice was the air
(And afterward, as bards of yore have told,
The ancient people were restor'd anew
From seed of emmets) than was here to see
The spirits, that languish'd through the murky vale
Up-pil'd on many a stack.†Canto 1.23-34 - Then to the bard I spake: "Was ever race
Light as Sienna's?†Canto 1.23-34
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)