 | 1765 - 520 pages
...beard to the wind. The flower hangs its heavy «' head — it feems to fay, I am covered with the 'c drops of heaven; the time of. my departure is " near, and the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves." Malvina's death is hinted to him in the moft delicate manner by the fon of... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1765 - 416 pages
...ftower hangs its heavy head, waving, at times, to the gale. Why doft thou awake me, O gale, it feems to fay, I am covered with the drops of heaven ? The time of my fading is near, and the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves. To-morrow mall the traveller come, he that... | |
 | Poetry - 1773 - 466 pages
...flower hangs its heavy head, waving, at times, to the gale. " Why doft thou awake me, O gale," it feems to fay, " I am covered with the drops of heaven ? The time of my fading is near, the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves. To-i morrow mall the traveller come ; he that... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1779 - 188 pages
...took up the manufcript, and in. broken accents continued. " Why doft thou awake me, Q gale? It feems to fay, I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, and the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves. To-morrow fhall the traveller come; he... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 282 pages
...death. « The » thiftle shakes its beard to the wind. The flower » hangs its heavy head-it feems to fay, I am >, covered with the drops of heaven ;...leaves ». Malvina's death is hinted to him in the moft delicate manner by the ion of Alpin. His lamentation over her , ,her apotheofis, or afcent to... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1785 - 286 pages
...the manufcript, and in broken accents, continued. « Why " Why doft thou awake me, O gale? It .feems to fay, I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, and the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves. To-morrow fhall the traveller come ; he... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1789 - 88 pages
...and, in broken accents, thus continued— ' Why doft thou awake me, O Gale ! ' It Teems to lay — " I am covered with " the drops of Heaven. The time of " my fading is ne.4r, and the blaft that " mall leaner my leaves. To-morrow " fhall the traveller coms;... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1790 - 344 pages
...thiftle fhakes its beard to the wind. The " flower hangs its heavy head ; it feems to fay, " I am *' I am -covered with the drops of heaven ; the «« time of my departure is near, and the blaft " that fhall fcatter my leaves." Malvina's death is hinted to him in the moft delicate manner by the fon of... | |
 | 1799 - 252 pages
...flower hanps its heavy head, waving, at times, to the gale. " Why doft thou awake me, O gale?" it feems to fay; " I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, and the blaft that fhall fcatter my leaves. To-morrow mall the traveller come, lie... | |
 | Ossian - 1801 - 364 pages
...prefages of death. "The thiBle fhakes its heard "to the wind. The ftower hangs its "heavy head ; it feems to fay , I am "covered with the drops of heaven ; "the time of ;ny departure is near, "and the blaft that Ihall fcatter my "leaves." Malvina's death is hinted to... | |
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The flower hangs its heavy head, waving, at times, to the gale. Why dost thou awake me, O gale, it seems to say, I am covered with the drops of heaven? The time of my fading is near, and the blast that shall scatter my leaves. Tomorrow shall the traveller... 
