All night I stood on the shore. I saw her by the faint beam of the moon. All night I heard her cries. Loud was the wind; the rain beat hard on the hill. Before morning appeared, her voice was weak. It died away, like the evening breeze among the grass... The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal - Page 1601783Full view - About this book
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - German literature - 1914 - 340 pages
...Sudden a blast from the hill came over the waves. He sank and he rose no more. Alone, on the sea-beat rock, my daughter was heard to complain. Frequent and loud were her cries. What could her father do? All night I stood on the shore. I saw her by the faint beam of the moon.... | |
| Anna von der Heide - Comparative literature - 1915 - 322 pages
...from the hill comes over the waves. He funk, and he rofe no more. ALONE, on the fea-beat rock, my i0 daughter was heard to complain. Frequent and loud...could her father relieve her. All night I ftood on the fhore. All night I heard her cries. Loud was the wind; is and the rain beat hard on the fide of the... | |
| James Macpherson - Scottosj poetry - 1915 - 94 pages
...from the hill comes over the waves. He funk, and he rofe no more. ALONE, on the fea-beat rock, my 10 daughter was heard to complain. Frequent and loud...could her father relieve her. All night I ftood on the fhore. All night I heard her cries. Loud was the wind; 15 and the rain beat hard on the fide of the... | |
| J W Von Goethe, Theodor Fontane, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm - Fiction - 1917 - 556 pages
...Sudden a blast from a hill came over the waves ; he sank, and he rose no more. "Alone, on the sea-beat rock, my daughter was heard to complain ; frequent and loud were her cries. What could her father do ? AH night I stood on the shore : I saw her by the faint beam of the moon.... | |
| Elizabeth Inchbald - English drama - 746 pages
...leaf's tur \ed down Where hopeless Armin mourns his murdered child. (Reads.) " Alone on the sea- beat rock my daughter was heard to complain — frequent...cries, nor could her father relieve her All night I stood on the shore — 1 saw her by the faint beam of the moon, and before morning appeared, her voice... | |
| R. R. Agrawal - Art - 1990 - 316 pages
...wherein Armin bewails the loss of his children, especially of his daughter: "Alone, on the sea-beat rock, my daughter was heard to complain; frequent and loud were her cries. What could her father do? All night I stood on the shore: I saw her by the faint beam of the moon.... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Fiction - 1995 - 316 pages
...Sudden a blast from a hill came over the waves; he sank, and he rose no more. "Alone, on the sea-beat rock, my daughter was heard to complain; frequent and loud were her cries. What could her father do? All night I stood on the shore: I saw her by the faint beam of the moon.... | |
| Jennifer Radden - History - 2002 - 394 pages
...Sudden a blast from a hill came over the waves; he sank, and he rose no more. "Alone, on the sea-beat rock, my daughter was heard to complain; frequent and loud were her cries. What could her father do? All night I stood on the shore: I saw her by the faint beam of the moon.... | |
| Dafydd Moore - Celts in literature - 2004 - 612 pages
...Sudden a blafc from the hill comes over the waves. He funk, and he rofe no more. ALONE, on the lea-beat rock, my daughter, was heard to complain. Frequent and loud were her cries ; nor could hen father relieve her. All night I liood on the fhcre. I faw her by the faint beam of the moon. All... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stanley Appelbaum - Foreign Language Study - 2003 - 244 pages
...Sudden a hlast from the hill came over the waves. He sank, and he rose no more. Alone, on the sea-heat rock, my daughter was heard to complain, Frequent and loud were her cries. What could her father do? All night I stood on the shore. I saw her hy the faint heam of the moon.... | |
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