 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.  The Poems of Ossian - Page 2501810Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1832 - 350 pages
...NEWSTEAD ABBEY. (*) " Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy tower to-day : yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes. It howls in thy empty court" — OSSIAN. THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my fathers,... | |
 | Mary Saunders - 1836 - 316 pages
...and beneath us. " Why dost thou build the hall, son, of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy tower to-day, yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes — it howls in thy empty court*." The grand hall is now a flower-garden, roofless, the pillars gone, and the mutilated walls covered... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 354 pages
...NEWSTEAD ABBEY. (») " Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days f Thou lookest from thy tower to-day : yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty court" — OsslAN. THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my fathers,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 336 pages
...NEWSTEAD ABBEY.i " Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy tower to-day : yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty court." — OSSIAN. THRODGH thy battlements, Newstcad, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my fathers,... | |
 | Fashion - 1850 - 464 pages
...thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy tower to-day; yet a little while and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court!" It is a cry whose " still small voice" is stifled ere it reach the human heart, by the self-trust of... | |
 | Edward Payson Weston - American poetry - 1840 - 226 pages
...place for me. OGILVIE. BV WILLIAM B. WALTER.* " Thou lookest from thy towers to-day ; yet a few seasons and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy...empty court and whistles round thy half-worn shield." THERE is a wail of sorrow spread Far o'er the waters deep !— Scotland ! we know thy son is dead,... | |
 | David Simons - 1841 - 178 pages
...will bear, and fling Around thy tomb's green covering." A VISIT TO THE ABBEY CHURCH, SHREWSBURY. " Yet a few years, and the blast of the desert Comes. — It howls in thy empty courts." OSSIAN. 'TWAS in the lone and solemn hour of even ! For night had lifted high her mantling... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1841 - 806 pages
...dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy tower to day ; yet a few days and the blast of the desert comes — it howls in thy empty courts, and whistles round thy half- worn shield." Yours, &c. WJ ROBERTS. Mn. URBAN, HAVING the satisfaction... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...NEWSTEAD ABBEY. 2 " Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy tower hile one executioner held her hands, the other, at the second stroke, m thy empty court." — О- ч •, -.. THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 648 pages
...NEWSTEAD ABBEY. " Why dost them build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy tower to-day : yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes, it ho w U in thy empty court. — OSsIAN.* THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow wmds whistle... | |
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