 | William Artman, Lansing V. Hall - American literature - 1854 - 404 pages
...TO THE SUN. 0 thou that rollest above, round as the shield of ray fathers ! Whence are thy beams, 0 Sun? thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave ; but thou thyself movest... | |
 | Scottish ballads and songs - 1854 - 606 pages
...clothed the daughter of many isles. We call back, maid of Lutha, the years that have rolled awayl 10 lifS 0 THOU that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers 1 "Whence are thy beams, O Sun! thy everlasting light! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars... | |
 | Haölé, George Washington Bates - Hawaii - 1854 - 506 pages
...apostrophes to this glorious orb, there are few, if any, more natural and eloquent than that of OSSIAN : " 0 thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers I Whence are thy beams, 0 sun I thy everlasting light ! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1855 - 492 pages
...than the ghosts of the hills, when it moves in a sunbeam at noon over the silence of Morven.b 2. O Thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my...comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest... | |
 | William Russell - 1855 - 310 pages
...Melancholy, united with Grandeur. 1. — [OssiAN's APOSTROPHE TO THE Sus/l — Macpherson. " O them that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers'...comest forth in thy awful beauty : the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1855 - 530 pages
...feeble voice. The beam of heaven delights to shine on the grave of Carthon : I feel it warm around. 0 thou that rollest above, round as the' shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, 0 sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves... | |
 | Rufus Claggett - 1855 - 208 pages
...The monotone has great force and dignity in pronouncing grave, solemn and sublime language. EXAMPLE. 0 thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! whence are thy beams, 0 Sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1855 - 348 pages
...And ever-musing Melancholy reigns, — What means this tumult in a vestal's vein* ? • 3. 0 ! tlion that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers, — whence are thy beams, 0 Sun ! thy everlasting light 7 Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in... | |
 | Clans - 1903 - 284 pages
...of light, whose streaming beainshave drawn so many beautiful sentiments from tlie Celtic mind — "O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, О sun ! thy everlasting light f Thou eomest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1897 - 318 pages
...in construction. The remainder is equivalent to (I will give) my kingdom for a horse. 168 — 8. O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers, whence are thy beams, 0 sun ? This sentence contains two independent parts ; the first being the whole of the first line,... | |
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O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou... 
