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Definition of Bards
1. bard [v] - See also: bard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bards
Literary usage of Bards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1921)
"And I saw the free souls of poets, The loftiest bards of past ages strode ...
20 O my rapt verse, my call, mock me notl Not for the bards of the past, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1910)
"Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh bards, translated into English,
etc. By Evan Evans. London : R. and J. Dodsley, 1764. 2. ..."
3. The Monks of the West from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Francis Aidan Gasquet (1896)
"He interposes in favour of the bards, whom the king had proposed to outlaw. ...
The bards' song of gratitude in honour of their saviour. ..."
4. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Frank Martindale Webster, George Wiley Sherburn, Howard M. Jones (1918)
"22 Not to call even those lofty bards here by Ontario's shores, Not for the bards
of the past—not to invoke them have I launch'd you forth, Have I sung so ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1827)
"The bards. The immortality so vainly promised by the priests was, in some degree,
... It was in the hour of battle, or in the feast victory, that the bards ..."
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