Let the tomb open to Ossian, for his strength has failed. The sons of song are gone to rest. My voice remains, like a blast, that roars, lonely, on a sea-surrounded rock, after the winds are laid. The dark moss whistles there; the distant mariner sees... The Poems of Ossian - Page 232by Hugh Campbell - 1822 - 700 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...sing ? Soon shall he lie in the narrow house, and no bard shsll raise his fame. Roll on, ye daik-brown years! for ye bring no joy in your course. Let the...voice remains, like a blast, that roars lonely on a sea-surrounding rock, after the winds are laid. The dark moss whistles there, and the distant mariner... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...bring no joy on your course. Let the tomb open to Ossian, for his strength has failed. The sODg of song are gone to rest : my voice remains, like a blast,...there, and the distant mariner sees the waving trees. -. CALTHON AND COI.MAL : A POEM. argument. This piece, ss many more of Ossian's compositions, is addressed... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...bring no joy on your course ! Let the tomb open to Ossian ; for his strength has failed. The sons of song are gone to rest. My voice remains, like a blast,...after the winds are laid. The dark moss whistles there ; the distant mariner sees the waving-trees ! CALTHON AND COLMAL A POEM. ARGUMENT. THIS piece, as many... | |
| Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...open to Ossian, for his strength has failed. The sons of song are gone to rest. My voice re-> mains, like a blast, that roars, lonely, on a sea-surrounded rock, after the winds are laid. The darltf moss whistles there ; the distant mariner sees the waving trees! * Ossian is sometimes poetically... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...continues the mournful bard ; " they say, as they pass along, why does Ossian sing ? — The sons of song are gone to rest. My voice remains, like a blast,...the winds are laid. The dark moss whistles there; the distant mariner sees the waving trees !" f It had been the unhappy lot, indeed, of the Celtic bard,... | |
| Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 798 pages
...not ' the tomb open to OSSIAN? For his strength has failed ; the sons of song are gone to rest ; HIS voice remains, like a blast, that roars lonely on...there, and the distant mariner sees the waving trees.' 3. My excellent friend, Professor Anthon of New York, has, in my edition of Lempriere's Classical Dictionary,... | |
| Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 804 pages
...not ' the tomb open to OSSIAN ? For his strength has failed ; the sons of song are gone to rest ; HIS voice remains, like a blast, that roars lonely on...there, and the distant mariner sees the waving trees.' 3. My excellent friend, Professor Anthon of New York, has, in my edition of Lempriere's Classical Dictionary,... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...on your course ! Let the tomb open 10 Ossian. for his strength ha» failed. The sous ¿f song r.re edious time away ; or else supplies Her place a moment, while she sudden flits To p roek, after the \vinds are laid. The dark moss whistles there ; the distant mariner sees the waving... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...no joy on your course! Let the torab open to Otfian, lor his strength has failed. The »one of »ong , like the sun emerging from a cloud, Her countenance...brightens and her eye expands ; Her bosom heaves and spr arc laid. The dark moss whistle» there ; the ili-iant mariner sees the waving tree«! When Macphcrson... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...has failed. The sons of song are gone to i rest. My voice remains, like a blast that roars, lonely, j they do not understand, or partially determine what they hare nerer examined ; and ; the distant mariner [ sees the waving trees! When Macpherson had not the groundwork of Ossian to... | |
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