 I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls: and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely...  The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal - Page 231783Full view - About this book
 | Peter Hately Waddell - Arran, Island of (Scotland) - 1875 - 446 pages
...from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round his head" — and can hardly help concluding that this so-called " monument"... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - English literature - 1875 - 496 pages
...its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook, there, its lonely head : the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of MOINA, silence is in the house... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina; silence is in the house... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook, there, its lonely head : the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook, there, its lonely head : the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house... | |
 | Joseph Irving - Dumbartonshire (Scotland) - 1879 - 440 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head : the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows : the rank grass of the hall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina : silence is in the house... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows ; the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina; silence is in the house... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - English poetry - 1883 - 372 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows ; the rank grass of the wall waved round his head." It is an eerie wail out of the solitude. We are blown hither... | |
 | Art objects - 1888 - 318 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved around its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house... | |
 | Harry Butler SIMPSON - 1888 - 222 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house... | |
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