| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry, Modern - 1836 - 170 pages
...flying. * The flower hangs its head, waving at times to the gale. Why dost thon awake me, O gale ! it seems to say, I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, the blast that shall scatter my leaves. To-morrow shall the traveller come, he that... | |
| Ossian - 1845 - 546 pages
...the cloud that shall receive his ghost ; he beholds ihe mist that shall form his robe when heappears on his hill ;' and all the natural objects around...lamentation over her, her apotheosis, or ascent to the hahitation of heroes, and the introduction to the story which follows from the mention which Ossian... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 846 pages
...song. * The flower hangs its head, waving at times to the (talc. Why dost thou awake me, oh gale ! it seems to say. I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, the blast that shall scatter rajleaves. To-morrow shall the traveller come, he that... | |
| John Wright - 1853 - 144 pages
...The flower hangs its heavy head, waving, at times, to the gale. ' Why dost thou awake me, O gale?' it seems to say, ' I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, the blast that shall scatter my leaves. To-morrow shall the traveller come ; he that... | |
| James Cundall - 1866 - 554 pages
...(Rryonia dioica.) "The flower hangs its head, waving at times to the gale. Why dost thou wake me, 0 gale! it seems to say, I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, the blast that shall scatter my leaves. To-morrow shall the traveller come, he that... | |
| Amos Dean - Civilization - 1869 - 652 pages
...shall receive his ghost ; he beholds the mist that shall form his robe when he appears on his Jiill. The thistle shakes its beard to the wind. The flower...near, and the blast that shall scatter my leaves." It is worthy of remark that Ossian observes strictly the proprieties of time and place, and when the... | |
| Peter Hately Waddell - Arran, Island of (Scotland) - 1875 - 450 pages
...wind. The flower hangs its heavy head, waving at times to the gale. Why dost thou wake me, O gale, it seems to say, I am covered with the drops of heaven? The time of my fading is near, and the blast that shall scatter my leaves. To-morrow shall the traveller come ; he... | |
| Peter Hately Waddell - Arran, Island of (Scotland) - 1875 - 446 pages
...wind. The flower hangs its heavy head, waving at times to the gale. Why dost thou wake me, O gale, it seems to say, I am covered with the drops of heaven? The time of my fading is near, and the blast that shall scatter my leaves. To-morrow shall the traveller come ; he... | |
| Charles Gibbon - 1881 - 346 pages
...MEBLIN'S CAIRN. " The flower hangs its head, waving at times to the gale. Why dost thou awake me, 0 gale ? it seems to say. I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, the blast that shall scatter my leaves. To-morrow shall the traveller come — he that... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1890 - 412 pages
...Beneath, <fe.] The flower hangs its head waving at t imes to the gale. Why dost thou awake me, O gale .' it seems to say, I am covered with the drops of heaven. The time of my fading is near, the blast that shall scatter my leaves. To-morrow shall the traveller come, he that... | |
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