 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 350 pages
...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 in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. And let the blast of the desert come ! we shall be... | |
 | James Macpherson - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1805 - 336 pages
...for, one day, we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookcst from thy towers to-day ; yet a few 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... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...for, one day, we most 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 desart comes ; it howls on thy empty coort, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. And let the blast... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...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 desart comes*3; it howls in thy empty talions of the clasping ivy and the fox obscene. But the original... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - Puritans - 1806 - 168 pages
...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 in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. — OSSIAN. THE VISIONS OF JLOVE. Senza 1'amabile Dio... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...for, one day, we must fall. Why tIo.sl1.hou 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 in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. And let the blast of the desert come ! we shall be... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Ireland - 1806 - 366 pages
...of the words of Ossian. " Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou " look'st from thy towers to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast of " the desartcomes: it howls in thy empty court." Stupendous mountains enclose this place on all sides, except... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...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 in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. And 86 " Let the glance of day brighten, Let its radiance... | |
 | John Bowring - English poetry - 1821 - 290 pages
...us; for one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, sou of the winged days? thou lookest from thy towers to-day ; yet a. few years and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court, and n liistlcs round thy half-worn shield. And " Let the glance of day brighten, Let its radiance... | |
 | E D. Carr - 1821 - 768 pages
...destruction to all below. " Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged day ? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls on thy empty court, and whistles round thy half- worn shield." Where Where then, amidst this desolation,... | |
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Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers today; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. 
