 | Thomas Price - Brittany (France) - 1854 - 430 pages
...his spear. His darkeiirJ brow bends forward to the coast ; he looks back to the lagging winds. His hair is disordered on his back. The silence of the king is terribk-." Nevertheless, we are assured by Irish scholars, that whenever these Ossianic fragments are... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 362 pages
...song of Fingal in the day of his FINGAL AND THE SPIRIT OF LODA. Night came down on the sea; Roma's bay received the ship. A rock bends along the coast with all its echoing wood. On the top is the circle of Loda, the mossy stone of power ! A narrow plain spreads beneath, covered •with... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 pages
...once his spear. His darkened brow bends forward to the coast : he looks back to the lagging winds. His hair is disordered on his back. The silence of the...bends along the coast with all its echoing wood. On the top is the circle of Loda, the mossy stone of power ! A narrow plain spreads beneath, covered with... | |
 | Ossian - 1870 - 596 pages
...e 'am farum a chruaidh, A shealladh air carraig nan stuagh. he looks back to the tagging winds. His hair is disordered on his back. The silence of the...bends along the coast with all its echoing wood. On the top is the circle of Loda, the mossy stone of power ! A narrow plain spreads beneath, covered with... | |
 | Archibald Clerk - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1870 - 590 pages
...e 'am farum a chruaidh, A shealladh air carraig nan stuagh. he looks back to the lagging winds. His hair is disordered on his back. The silence of the king is terrible ! 146 CAEEIC-THtlEA. He was obliged to pass the night at Botha. Here was a circle of stones sacred... | |
 | Peter Hately Waddell - Arran, Island of (Scotland) - 1875 - 446 pages
...once his spear. His darkened brow bends forward to the coast : he looks back to the lagging winds. His hair is disordered on his back : the silence of the...terrible. Night came down on the sea : Rotha's bay," which was also in Inistore, " received the ship," &c. ; but with all this expedition and anxiety, Carricthura... | |
 | Peter Hately Waddell - Arran, Island of (Scotland) - 1875 - 450 pages
...once his spear. His darkened brow bends forward to the coast: he looks back to the lagging winds. His hair is disordered on his back: the silence of the...terrible. Night came down on the sea: Rotha's bay," which was also in Inistore, " received the ship," &c. ; but with all this expedition and anxiety, Carricthura... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...song of Fingal in the day of his joyFINGAL AND THE SPIRIT OF LODA. Night came down on the sea; Roma's bay received the ship. A rock bends along the coast with all its echoing wood. On the top is the circle of Loda, the mossy stone of power ! A narrow plain spreads beneath, covered with... | |
 | Alexander Lawson - Church of Scotland - 1896 - 118 pages
...and it is well known that the largest of all our Scottish circles stands on the mainland of Orkney. "A rock bends along the coast, with all its echoing wood. On the top is the Circle of Lodin [Gaelic for Odin], the mossy stone of power," and according to Dr. Clark's... | |
 | Poetry - 1926 - 482 pages
...back to the lagging winds. His hair is disordered on his back. The silence of the king is terrible 1 Night came down on the sea; Rotha's bay received the...bends along the coast with all its echoing wood. On the top is the circlet of Loda, the mossy stone of power 1 A narrow plain spreads beneath, covered... | |
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Night came down on the sea; Rotha's bay received the ship. A rock bends along the coast with all its echoing wood. On the top is the circle* of Loda, the mossy stone of power! 
