 But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow! Thy face was like the sun after rain; like the moon in the silence of night; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud wind is laid.  The Poems of Ossian - Page 2111773Full view - About this book
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 274 pages
...diftant "hills.! Many fell by .thy arm; they were eoafumed in the, flames i of thy wrath. But when thon didft return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the furi after rain ; like the moon in the Clence of night ; calm as the breaft" of the lake when; the... | |
 | History - 1789 - 560 pages
...they wcrt. contumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thou returncdft from war, how peaceful v.-as thy brow ! Thy face was like the fun after rain ; like the moon in the fijence of the night; calm as the breaft of the lake when the loud wind is laid. Narrow is thy dwelling... | |
 | Eulogies - 1800 - 336 pages
...confumed in the flames of his wrath ! But when he returned from the war, 'how peaceful was his brow ! His face was like the fun after rain ; like the moon in the filence of the night ; calm as the breaft of the lake, when the loud wind is laid ! Once more called from his... | |
 | Ossian - 1801 - 344 pages
...arm; they were confumed in the flames of the wrath. But when thou didft return from war, howpeaceful was thy brow! Thy face was like the fun after rain;...the breaft of the lake when the loud wind is laid. THE SONGS or SELMA. 83 Narrow is thy dwelling now! dark the place of thine abode! With three fieps... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...distant hills. Many fell by thy arm; they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow '. Thy face was like the sun after rain ! like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...distant hills. Many fell by thy arm ; they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain ; like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud... | |
 | James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...hills. Many fell by thy arm ; they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thou returnedst from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain ; like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...hills. Many fell by thy arm; they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thou returnedst from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain ; like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...distant hills. Many fell by thy arm; they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow! Thy face was like the sun after rain; like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud... | |
 | Ann Doherty - 1812 - 356 pages
...not till a late hour did the exhausted chieftains retire to repose. CHAP. VIII. ' But when thou didst return from war, " How peaceful was thy brow ! " Thy face was like the sun after rain." Ouitn. ON the morning succeeding this glorious day, a day in which so many heroes... | |
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