 She fell; she trembled; and died. By the brook of the hill their graves are laid; a birch's unequal shade covers their tomb. Often on their green earthen tombs the branchy sons of the mountain feed, when mid-day is all in flames, and silence is over all...  Fugitive Pieces, on Various Subjects - Page 139by Robert Dodsley - 1761Full view - About this book
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...pleased I can meet death. My sorrow I can end. She pierced her white bosom with the steel. She fell ; she trembled ; and died. By the brook of the hill their...laid ; a birch's unequal shade covers their tomb. Olten, on their green earthen tombs, the branchy socs of the mountain feed, when mid-day is all in... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...pleased I can meet death. My sorrow I can end. She piereed her white bosom with the stesl. She fell ; she trembled ; and died. By the brook of the hill their graves are laid ; a bireh's unequal shade covers their tomb. Often on their green earthen tombs, the branchy sons of the... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1839 - 426 pages
...pleased I can meet death. My sorrow I can end. She pierced her white bosom with the steel. She fell ; she trembled ; and died. By the brook of the hill their...mountain feed, when mid-day is all in flames, and silence over all the hills. THE SONGS OF SELMA. ARGUMENT. Address to the evening star. Apostrophe to Fingal... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - Wales - 1861 - 546 pages
...the bard ' pours forth his soul in song,' mourning the death of Oscar, and his faithful Dcrrnid: — 'By the brook of the hill their graves are laid ; a birch's unequal shade covers their tombs. Often, on their green earthen tombs, the sons of the mountain feed, when mid-day is all in flames,... | |
 | Aungervyle society - 1881 - 360 pages
...can meet death. My sorrow I can end thus. — She pierced her white Bosom with steel. She fell ; she trembled ; and died. By the Brook of the Hill their...their Tomb. Often on their green earthen Tombs the sons of the Mountain feed, when Mid-day is all in Flames, and silence is over all the Hills. J|Y the... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - Bards and bardism in literature - 1894 - 350 pages
...Their swords were stained with the blood of the valiant : warriors fainted at their names. . . . " By the brook of the hill their graves are laid ; a...all in flames and silence is over all the hills." 1 Home was extremely pleased at what he regarded as a very important discovery. His account of this... | |
 | Ireland - 1898 - 658 pages
...there. Valiant though they may have been, that sleep beneath the cairn, they are now forgotten, and ' often on their green earthen tombs the branchy sons of the mountain feed, when mid-day is all in names, and silence over all the hills.' Many a change has swept over the valleys below since this historic... | |
 | John Semple Smart - Bards and bardism in literature - 1905 - 256 pages
...received the arrow in his breast. The maiden pierced her own bosom, and the lovers were buried together. " Often on their green earthen tombs the branchy sons...all in flames, and silence is over all the hills." This tale is so far from being common that no copy of it exists but Macpherson's. In no collection... | |
 | Anna von der Heide - Comparative literature - 1915 - 322 pages
...meet death. My forrow I can end thus. — She pierced her white bofom 10 with fteel. She fell; fhe trembled; and died. BY the brook of the hill their graves are laid; a birch's unequal fhade covers their tomb. Often on their green earth- is en tombs the branchy fons of the mountain feed,... | |
 | James Macpherson - Scottosj poetry - 1915 - 86 pages
...meet death. My forrow I can end thus. — She pierced her white bofom 10 with fteel . She fell ; fhe trembled ; and died. BY the brook of the hill their graves are laid; a birch's unequal fhade covers their tomb. Often on their green earth- 15 en tombs the branchy fons of the mountain feed,... | |
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