O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, 0 sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. The Lairds of Fife ... - Page 2581828Full view - About this book
| Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 274 pages
...delights to shine on the grave of Carthon : I feel it warm around. O thou tjiat rolleft above (i) , round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams , O fun ! thy everlafting light ? Thoucomeft forth in thy awful beauty , and the ftars hide themfelvesin... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 308 pages
...(' rest. The beam of heaven delights to shine on the " grave of Carlhon ; I feel it warm around. " O thou that rollest above, round as the shield " of my fathers ! whence are thy beams, O Sun t " thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy >; awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves... | |
| James Macpherson - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1805 - 336 pages
...feeble voice! The beam of heaven delights to shine on the grave of Carthon : I feel it warm around ! O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, O sun f thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...similar to Satan's address to the sun, in the fourth book of Paradise Lost. MACPHERSON, 1st edit. " О thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, О sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou earnest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves... | |
| William Belsham - 1806 - 646 pages
...satisfactorily ascertained. Ossian's address to the sun, to adduce no other instance, is truly sublime : " O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers, whence are thy beams, O Sun ! whence thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; and the stars hide themselves... | |
| Thomas Hogg - 1811 - 120 pages
...FIRST. ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT. GOOD-FRIDAY MORNING; April, 181O. Canto " O tliou that rollcst al-ovc, round as the shield of my fathers ! whence are thy beams, O Sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou eamest forth in thy awful bcauty ; tlie stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale,... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...omnipotent voice hath, fixed the limits where thy proud waves shall be stayed ! ATOSTROrHE TO THE SUN. 0 thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, O sun ! thy everlasiing light ? thou comest forth, in thy awful beau; y> and the stars hide themselves in the sky... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...thy journey and thy life. Low and Loud. The inflexions slightly marked, approaching th«i Monotone. O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers L whence are thy beams, O sun ! thy everlasting light? Thou .comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the... | |
| English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...thy beams." — Carthon. In the same touching spirit is the noble address to the sun. — " O thon that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers...whence are thy beams, O sun ! — thy everlasting light J Thou contest forth in thy awful beauty, the stars hide themselves in the sky : the moon cold and... | |
| Domestic, literary and village sketches - Great Britain - 1823 - 168 pages
...brighten, and the ocean roll its white waves, in light." POEM OF DAR-THULA. OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN. O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, O sun I thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the... | |
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