Meanings of old bard in English

In his introduction he compares Dante with Homer, and complains that the venerable old bard .

How the old bard swept away such fears!

The old bard congratulates the young one:

Scott speaks of this in his Lay of the Last Minstrel, where he describes the old bard, who

But who of the old bards would have described nature other than as she is?

It is not because the old bards were less as poets, but that they were more as men.

'The grand old bard of Scio's rocky isle.'

"Ay, verily, that hour has come," cried the old bard, with a wild gesture.

"The blind old bard of Scio's rocky isle,"

A Tale devised in the pleasant manner of Chaucer; in which the Poet imitates that venerable old Bard, in the obsolete Language of his

Neither poetic or outlandish costume, nor the impossible language put into the mouths of their creations by the old bards, makes the unconventional woman.