 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain ; like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake...wind is laid. Narrow is thy dwelling now; dark the plucc of thine abode ! With three steps I compass thy grave, O thou who wast so great before ! Four... | |
 | James Logan - Celts - 1876 - 470 pages
...translation of a passage in the " Songs of Selm " is correct, these stones were raised above the grave. " Narrow is thy dwelling now ! dark the place of thine abode ! with three steps I compass thy grave, 0 thou who wast so great before! four stones with their heads of moss are the only memorials of thee,... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...return from war, how peaceful was thy brow! Thy face was like the sun after rain ; like the moon in the silence of night; calm as the breast of the lake when...who wast so great before! Four stones, with their heads of moss, are the only memorial of thee. A tree with scarce a leaf, long grass which whistles... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain ; like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake...compass thy grave, O thou who wast so great before 1 Four stones, with their heads of moss, are the only memorial of thee. A tree with scarce a leaf,... | |
 | David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...as the breast of the lake, when the loud wind is hushed into repose. Narrow is thy dwelling nowdark the place of thine abode. With three steps I compass thy grave, oh, thou who wast so great before ! Pour stones with their heads of moss are the only memorial of thee.... | |
 | Aungervyle society - 1881 - 360 pages
...returnedst from War, how peaceful was thy brow l Thy lace was like the Sun after Rain ; like the Moon in the silence of Night; calm as the Breast of the Lake when...thou who wast so great before! Four Stones with their heads of Moss are the only Memorial of thee. A Tree with scarce a Leaf, long Grass which whistles in... | |
 | Anthony Walton White Evans - 1883 - 96 pages
...thy arm, But when thou dids't return from war, how • Peaceful was thy brow. Like the moon in the Silence of night. — Calm as the breast of the Lake, when the loud wind is laid. " — Ossian. 39 When the news of the death of ЩФ became known, all Europe resounded with praises... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...return from war, how peaceful was thy brow! Thy face was like the sun after rain; like the moon in the blood, With too much riches it confound itself: Had...We lop away, that bearing boughs may live: Had he heads of moss are the only memorial of thee. A tree with scarce a leaf, long grass which whistles in... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - English literature - 1893 - 458 pages
...return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain ; like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake, when the loud wind is hushed into repose." — Macpherson's " Translation of Ossian." ST. PATRICK'S PURGATORY is the name... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...the sun after rain ; Like the moon in the silence of night ; Calm as the breast of the hike when tl* loud wind is laid. Narrow is thy dwelling now ! Dark the place of thine alxxle ! With three steps I compass thy grave, O thou who wast so great before. Four stones with their... | |
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Many fell by thy arm : they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow. Thy face was like the sun after rain : like the moon in the silence of night : calm as the breast of the lake when the... 
