The Poems of Ossian, Volume 2W. Miller, 1805 - Scottish Gaelic poetry |
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... behold . Deaths fore , be improper , to give here the traditional preface , which is generally prefixed to it . Two years after he took to wife Ros - crana , the daughter of Cormac , king of Ireland , Fingal undertook an expedition into ...
... behold . Deaths fore , be improper , to give here the traditional preface , which is generally prefixed to it . Two years after he took to wife Ros - crana , the daughter of Cormac , king of Ireland , Fingal undertook an expedition into ...
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... behold thee , chief of Lulan , sporting by Loda's hall , when the dark- skirted night is rolled along the sky . Thou , sometimes , hidest the moon with thy shield . I have seen her dim , in heaven . Thou kindlest thy hair into meteors ...
... behold thee , chief of Lulan , sporting by Loda's hall , when the dark- skirted night is rolled along the sky . Thou , sometimes , hidest the moon with thy shield . I have seen her dim , in heaven . Thou kindlest thy hair into meteors ...
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... behold the dark moon descending behind thy resounding woods . On thy top dwells the misty Loda : the house of the spirits of men ! In the end of his cloudy hall , bends forward Cruth - loda of swords . form is dimly seen , amid his wavy ...
... behold the dark moon descending behind thy resounding woods . On thy top dwells the misty Loda : the house of the spirits of men ! In the end of his cloudy hall , bends forward Cruth - loda of swords . form is dimly seen , amid his wavy ...
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... behold my race on thy side . Fingal is bending , in night , over * The bards , who were always ready to supply what they thought deficient in the poems of Ossian , have in- serted a great many incidents between the second and third duan ...
... behold my race on thy side . Fingal is bending , in night , over * The bards , who were always ready to supply what they thought deficient in the poems of Ossian , have in- serted a great many incidents between the second and third duan ...
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... behold the gleam of his steel , on the field of his promise . Or rather let the meteor , that lights our fathers through the night , come , with its red beam , to shew me the way to my fallen hero . Who will defend me from sorrow ? Who ...
... behold the gleam of his steel , on the field of his promise . Or rather let the meteor , that lights our fathers through the night , come , with its red beam , to shew me the way to my fallen hero . Who will defend me from sorrow ? Who ...
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Annir arms arose art thou Balclutha bards battle beam behold bend blast blood breast Cairbar Carril Carthon cave chace chief Clessammor clouds Clutha Colmal Comala Comhal Connal Crimora Croma Crugal Cuthullin Dargo dark dark-brown daugh daughter Daura death distant dost thou Duchomar Dunthalmo Duth-carmor dwelling echoing Erin eyes fame father feast feeble fell Fingal fled friends Frothal Gaul ghosts gloomy grief hair hall hand harp hear heard heath heroes Hidallan hill king lift Lochlin Loda maid Malvina meteor midst mighty mist Moina moon Morna Morni Morven mossy mournful night Oithona Oscar Ossian poem race raised Rathmor renowned rise roar rock rolled rose rushed sails Scandinavia Selma shield sigh song sons soul sound spear Starno steel stood storm strangers stream sun-beam Swaran sword tears thee tomb Torman tree trembling Trenmor Ullin vale voice warriors waves white-bosomed winds youth