 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 - 1859 - 914 pages
...doit thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy tower to-day : yet a fc-w Ԇ u * L ݒ 0 — OSSIAN. THROUGH thy battlements, Newstcad, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my fathers,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 362 pages
...fallen before us: 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...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 in battle; my name in the song of... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1860 - 354 pages
...are seldom weighed in the same balance. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days 1 thou lookest from thy towers to-day ; yet a few years,...of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court. — Ossian. Light ! from whose rays all beauty springs, Darkness ! whose wide-expanded wings LESSOR... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1862 - 324 pages
...partner, acceded to this request. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged daysp thou lookc.sl from thy towers to-day; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court.—Ossian. Light! from whose rays all beauty springs, Darkness! whose wide-expanded wings Involve... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1865 - 354 pages
...are seldom weighed in the same balance. 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 gmpty court. — Ossian. Light ! from whose rays all beauty springs, Darkness ! whose wide-expanded... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1866 - 440 pages
...fallen, before us ; for one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hill, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day : yet a few years,...empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield." In his address to the Sun the Celtic bard is equally philosophical and grand, and evinces equal contempt... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days 1 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. Let the blast of the desert come ! we shall be renowned in our day." All Europe... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1866 - 826 pages
...before us, for one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days 1 Thou lockest from thy towers to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert come? ; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. Let the blast of the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 452 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 howlfi in thy empty court." — OSSIAN. THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - Loneliness - 1867 - 420 pages
...in its own imagination. Destiny says, " Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day. Yet a few years, and...court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield." And with pride of mournful resignation genius replies, " Let the blast of the desert come ! We shall be... | |
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