 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 352 pages
...the presages of death. " The thistle shakes its beard to the wind. The " flower hangs its heavy head; it seems to say, I am " covered with the drops of...the most delicate manner by the son of Alpin. His 154 A CRITICAL DISSERTATION ON lamentation over her, her apotheosis, or ascent to the habitation of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1803 - 222 pages
...the gale. * The flower hangs its 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 Macpherson - 1803 - 386 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... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...gale.] Croma, I0.- From THOMSON'S Autumn. Attempered suns arise, " Why dost thou awake me, О gale," it seems to say, " I am covered with the drops of heaven*? The time of my fading is near 3, the blast that shall scatter my leaves. To-morrow shall the traveller come ; he that... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...presages of death. " The thistle shakes its ' beard to the wind. The flower hangs its heavy head ; ' it seems to say, I am covered with the drops of heaven...apotheosis, or ascent to the habitation of heroes, and the introduction to the story which follows from the mention which Ossian supposes the father of... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 364 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... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1810 - 364 pages
...its heavy head; it seems to say, I am " covered with the drops of heaven ; the time of my de" parture is near, and the blast that shall scatter my leaves."...lamentation over her, her apotheosis, or ascent to the hahitation of heroes, and the introduction to the story which follows from the menti mi which Ossian... | |
 | Alexander Balfour, Campbell (fict. name.) - 1819 - 972 pages
...but my eyes are heavy ! The thistle shakes its beard to the wind ; the flower Jiangs its heavy head ; it seems to say, I am covered with the drops of heaven...near, and the blast that shall scatter my leaves." " The daughter of the snow left the hall of her secret sigh ; she came in all her beauty, like the... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...Ibid. 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. Tomorrow shall the traveller come. He that... | |
 | Hugh Campbell - 1822 - 624 pages
...presages of death. " The " thistle shakes its beard to the wind. The flower " hangs its heavy head ; it seems to say, I am covered " with the drops of...him in the most delicate manner by the son of Alpin. Uis lamentation over her, her apotheosis, or ascent to the habitation of heroes, and the introduction... | |
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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. Tomorrow shall the traveller come, he that saw me in my beauty shall come; his eyes will search the field, but they... 
