| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - Puritans - 1806 - 168 pages
...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 di Citera, I di non tornano Di primavera ; Non... | |
| Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...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 renowned in our day! The mark of my arm shall be... | |
| Christiane Derobert-Ratel - Aix-en-Provence (France) - 1809 - 590 pages
...the winged day ? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day; yet, a few days, and the blast of the desart comes; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield." Its many roofless apartments, its massy sombre walls, corroded by time and the elements, its shattered... | |
| Sir John Carr - Scotland - 1809 - 328 pages
...the winged day ? Thou lookesf from thy towers to-day; yet, a few days, and the blast .of the desart comes ; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield." Its many roofless apartments, its massy sombre walls, corroded by time and the elements, its shattered... | |
| Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1812 - 486 pages
...days ? thou lookest from thy tower to-day, yet a few years, and the blast of the desert shall come} it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy halfworn shield." We then all return home in the best spirits, and with the Best appetite in the world, to a little music... | |
| Richard Clark - Madrigals, English - 1814 - 530 pages
...For one day we must 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,...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... | |
| 664 pages
...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. O ! mark yonder yonth, on the hill's summit bounding ! As light as the roe on green Morven... | |
| English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...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 be shed o'er the mountain and sea1; Thy smiles... | |
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