 | Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 pages
...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. And 115 let the blast of the desert come ! we shall be renowned in our day ! The mark of my arm shall... | |
 | Joseph Pearson Farley - Hudson River - 1910 - 310 pages
...winged days? Thou lookest from the towers to-day; a few years and the blast of the desert comes — we shall be renowned in our day! The mark of my arm shall be in battle, my name is the song of the bard. When thou son of heaven shall fail, our fame shall survive thy beams.' Such... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Celtic literature - 1912 - 180 pages
...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...the desert come ! we shall be renowned in our day.' All Europe felt the power of that melancholy; but what I- wish to point out is, that no nation of Europe... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Fiction - 1913 - 376 pages
...the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy towers today ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles...the desert come ! we shall be renowned in our day." All Europe felt the power of that melancholy ; but what I wish to point out is, that no nation of Europe... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers today ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert y : And let the blast of the desert come! we shall be renowned in our day ! The mark of my arm shall be... | |
 | John Hunter Harley - Poland - 1917 - 268 pages
...heritage of Poland in her day of sorrow and distress. " Yet a few years and the blast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty court and whistles round thy half-worn shield. in Let the blast of the desert come 1 We shall be renowned in our day 1 *' It cannot be denied that... | |
 | Reinhard Haferkorn - Architecture, Gothic - 1924 - 230 pages
...blast of the desert comes; it howls in the einpty court, and whistles round the half-worn shield. And let the blast of the desert come! we shall be renowned in our day!" (S. 154). Noch keiner vor Macpherson hat das Vergänglichkeitspathos der Ruine mit solcher Eindringlichkeit... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1927 - 416 pages
...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. Ossian. THE VISIONS OF LOVE Senza. 1'amabile Dio di Citera, I di non tornano Di primavera ; Non spira... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1962 - 598 pages
...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...the desert come! we shall be renowned in our day." All Europe felt the power of that melancholy; but what I 15 wish to point out is, that no nation of... | |
 | Daniel R. Davis - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 630 pages
...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...the desert come ! we shall be renowned in our day." All Europe felt .the power of that melancholy ; but what I wish to point out is, that no nation of... | |
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O bards! over the land of strangers. 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... 
