A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard beseems.

James Thomson (1700-1748): The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 68.

Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand,

By those deep sounds possessed with inward light,

Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey

Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Fancy in Nubibus.