 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.  St. Clair; Or, The Heiress of Desmond - Page 185by Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1812Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...mourning, O bards, 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 from thy towers to-day; yet a few years and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court, and... | |
 | Sir John Bowring - English poetry - 1821 - 288 pages
...mourning, O bards, 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 from thy towers to-day ; yet a few years and the blast of the desert conies ; it howls in thy empty court, and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 404 pages
...AUTHOR. HOURS OF IDLENESS. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. Why dost thou build the hall? Son of the wingcJ days? Thou lookest from thy tower to-day ; yet a few years, and the btaitof the dcsart comes; it howls in thy empty court. OSSIAN. t. THRO* thy b..Utlements^ewstear^thehollowwiudswhistle;... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Greek poetry - 1822 - 200 pages
...INSCRIBED, BY HIS OBLIGED WARD, f AND AFFECTIONATE KINSMAN, THE AUTHOR. POEMS. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. Why dost thou build the hall ? Son of the winged days...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 498 pages
...OBLIGED WARD, AND AFFECTIONATE KINSMAN, THE AUTHOR. POEMS. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. Why dost tbou build the hall ? Son of the winged days ! Thou lookest...to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert routes; it howls in thy empty court. OSSiAIs. A HROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...IS INSCRIBED, BY HIS OBLIGED WARD, AMD AFFECTIONATE KINSMAN, THE AUTHOR. ON LEAVING NEVVSTEAD ABBEY. Why dost thou build the hall ! Son of the winged days...to-day ; yet a few years and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court.— Ostian. THROCGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds... | |
 | English literature - 1824 - 436 pages
...selected as a motto for the poem in his earliest publication, relative to this building : " ДУЪу dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days?...— yet, a few years, and the blast of the .desert comes ; it howls in thy empty courts, and whistles round thy moss-grpwn shield." "The state of things... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 546 pages
...AFFECTIONATE KINSMAN, THIi AUTHOIl. VOL. vn. 7 HOURS OF IDLENESS. POEMS. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ARREY. Why dost thou build the hall? Son of the winged days!...to-day; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court. OSSIAN. THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead,thehollowwinds whistle,... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. Why dost tli. in build the hall ' son of the winged days ! Thou lookest frnni thy tower to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty courts. — OSSIAN. Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds... | |
 | George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825 - 314 pages
...pieces, to ascertain the &ga of the poet at the period of their composition. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. Why dost thou build the hall? son of the winged days ! Thou iookest from thy tower to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy... | |
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