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" When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more, whether thy yellow hair flows on... "
The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson. To which are prefixed ... - Page 14
by Ossian - 1805
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...But to Ossian, thou lookest in vain; for he beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair [20 flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at...west. But thou art, perhaps, like me, for a season; thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning. Exult...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...when thunder rolls, and lightning flies; thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian, thou lookest in vain; for...beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair [20 flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art, perhaps,...
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English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement

George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at 25 thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou...
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Persuasive Speaking: Business Discussion and Public Address

Irvah Lester Winter - Elocution - 1928 - 236 pages
...tempests, when thunders roll and lightnings fly, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain; for...beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair floats on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art, perhaps, like...
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The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860

Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 596 pages
...the clouds, and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian, thou lookest in vain, for he heholds thy heams no more: whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremhlest at the gates of the west. But thou art, perhaps, like me, for a season; and thy years will...
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Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews

Kenneth M. Price - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 392 pages
...when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain, for...clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. WALT WHITMAN. Thou that with fructifying heat and light, o'er myriad farms, o'er land and waters North...
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The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860

Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 598 pages
...when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty, from the clouds, and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian, thou lookest in vain, for...for a season; and thy years will have an end. Thou shall sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning. Exult then, O sun, in the strength...
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"Homer des Nordens" und "Mutter der Romantik": James ..., Volumes 1-2

Wolf Gerhard Schmidt - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 2003 - 612 pages
...Endlichkeit der Sonne selbst. So sinniert Ossian am Ende seines berühmten Sonnengesangs in Carthon: But thou art perhaps, like me, for a season, and thy years will have an end. Thou shall sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning. Exult then, O sun, in the strength...
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Ossian and Ossianism: The poems of Ossian, Volume 2

Dafydd Moore - Celts in literature - 2004 - 612 pages
...thou lookeft in thy beauty, from the clouds, and laugheft at the ftorm. But to Oflian, thou lookeft in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more ; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eaftern clouds, or thou trembleft at the gates of the weft. But thou art perhaps, like me, for a feafon,...
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The Reception of Blake in the Orient

Steve Clark, Masashi Suzuki - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 362 pages
...are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light?' The anger of Milton's Satan here turns to melancholy: 'But to Ossian, thou lookest in vain; for he beholds thy beams no more.'17 The new emphasis is on transience, the mortality of the poet and the contrast between age...
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