 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 274 pages
...howls in thy empty court, and whiftles round thy half-worn shield. — And let the blaft of the defart come ! we shall be renowned in our day. The mark of my arm shall be in {he battle, and my name in the fong of bards. — Raife the long ; fend round the shell : and let joybe... | |
 | James Macpherson - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1805 - 336 pages
...years, and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in the empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. And let the blast of the desert come ! we...joy be heard in my hall. When thou, sun of heaven, shalt fail ! if thou shall fail, thou mighty light ! if thy brightness ie for a season, like Fingal... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...scene. JCiiiter. court*4, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. And let the blast of the desart come, we shall be renowned in our day ! The mark of...joy be heard in my hall. When thou, sun of heaven, shalt fail ! if thou shalt fail, thou mighty light ! if thy brightness is for a season, like Fingal,... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...howls on thy empty coort, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. And let the blast of the desart come ! we shall be renowned in our day. The mark of my arm shall be in the battle, Mid my name in the song of bards. gaise the song; send round the shell : and let joy be... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...years, and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. And let the blast of the desert come ! we...round the shell: let joy be heard in my hall. When t hou, sun of heaven, shalt fail! if thou shall fail, thou mighty light ! if thy brightness is for... | |
 | Ossian - 1807 - 458 pages
...years, and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. And let the blast of the desert come ! we...mark of my arm shall be in battle; my name in the many digressions from the subject, all which are in a lyric measure, as this song of Fingal. Fingal... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1810 - 364 pages
...in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. And let the blast of the desert com*! we shall be renowned in our day! The mark of my arm...joy be heard in my hall. When thou, sun of heaven, shalt fail! if thou shalt fail, thou mighty light! if thy brightness is for a season, like Fingal,... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1812 - 370 pages
...years, and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in the empty court, and whistles round thy halfworn shield. And let the blast of the desert come ! we...the shell : let joy be heard in my hall. When thou, son of heaven, shalt fail! if thou shalt fail, thou mighty light ! if thy brightness is for a season,... | |
 | Richard Clark - Madrigals, English - 1814 - 530 pages
...fall. Yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes, And whistles round the half-worn shield. Let the blast of the desert come, We shall be renowned...shall be in battle, My name in the song of bards. Ossian. GLEE for Five Voices, WlLBYK.— 1609. in a valley as Alexis trips, He saw young Daphne sleeping... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...With love and with thee, What joys are not given ? For life has no transports that beam not on me." let the blast of the desert come ! we shall be renowned...joy be heard in my hall. When thou, sun of heaven ! shalt fail— if thou shalt fail, thou mighty light! if thy brightness is for a season, like Fingal,... | |
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O bards ! over the land of strangers. They have but fallen before us : for, one day, we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls... 
