 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 - 1828 - 814 pages
...thoughts thy waters teach — ' Eternity, Eternity, and Power.' Barry Cornwall, ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. Why dost thou build the hall ? Son of the winged days...thy tower to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast o) the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty halls. Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds... | |
 | William Morgan Kinsey - Portugal - 1828 - 630 pages
...silence is in the house of her fathers. 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... | |
 | William Morgan Kinsey - Portugal - 1828 - 648 pages
...silence is in the house of her fathers. 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... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...composition. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. Why dost llmu build the halll 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 empty courts. — OSSIAX. Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 498 pages
...worth, they were well entitled. MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. 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." — Ossian *. 1. THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow... | |
 | Dugald Moore - Scottish poetry - 1831 - 276 pages
...shadow ! thou shalt be the pall, The hoary sepulchre, that yet shall swallow all ! THE FLIGHT OF NERO. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from tliy tower to-day, yet a few years and the blast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty court.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1832 - 350 pages
...single out the spot ; By that remember'd, or with that forgot. 1803. 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" — OSSIAN. THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 352 pages
...By that remember'd, or with that forgot. 1803. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. («) " Why dost thou huild the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from...to-day : yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes, It howls in thy empty court. " — OSSIAN. THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1834 - 350 pages
...forgot. 1803. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. (t) " Why dost thou huild the hall, son of the winged days 'J Thou lookest from thy tower to-day : yet a few years, and the hlast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty court" — OSSIIN. THROUGH thy hattlements, Newstead,... | |
 | Mary Saunders - 1836 - 316 pages
...upon us so many deep and solemn emotions. We have lelt there the past above, about, and beneath us. " 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*." The grand hall is now a flower-garden, roofless, the pillars... | |
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