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...Imperial Magazine. I am, Sir, respectfully, Sec. ALEXANDER. Downpatrict, 26th May, 1821. " Why dost thou build the hall ? Son of the winged days ! Thou lookest...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... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...Magazine. I am, Sir, respectfully, &c. ALEXANDER. Daictipatrict, 2C(A May, 1821. " Why dost thon bnild the hall? Son of the winged days ! Thou lookest from...comes — it howls in thy empty court, and whistles ronnd thy half-worn shield." OSSIAN. Where flowers of enjoyments are spread io profusion, Which, soon... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1820 - 176 pages
...an Elm, in the Churchyard of Harrow on the Hill 159 POEMS. ON LEAVING 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 desart comes ; it howls in thy empty court. OSSIAN.... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...over the land of strangers. They have but fallen before us ; for one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? thou lookest...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... | |
 | John Bowring - English poetry - 1821 - 290 pages
...strangers. They have but fallen before us; for one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, sou of the winged days? thou lookest from thy towers to-day...the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court, and n liistlcs round thy half-worn shield. And " Let the glance of day brighten, Let its radiance be shed... | |
 | John Bowring - English poetry - 1821 - 288 pages
...over the land of strangers. They have but fallen before us; for one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? thou lookest...to-day ; yet a few years and the blast of the desert conies ; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. And " Let the glance... | |
 | E D. Carr - 1821 - 768 pages
...remained to threaten destruction to all below. " Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged day ? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls on thy empty court, and whistles round thy half- worn shield." Where Where then, amidst this desolation,... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 284 pages
...Why dost thou build the hall, sou of the winged days? thou lookest from thy towers to-day ; yet -i few years and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court, and whittles round thy half-worn shield. And " But list! to the bustling Of voices ; they wake in the castle... | |
 | John Bowring - English poetry - 1822 - 282 pages
...over the land of strangers. They have but fallen before us ; for one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest...and whistles round thy half-worn shield. And let the " Let the glance of day brighten, Let its radiance be shed o'er the mountain and sea;* Thy smiles shall... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Greek poetry - 1822 - 200 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. • OSSIAS. J. HROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my Fathers,... | |
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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. 
