| Thomas Bailey Saunders - Bards and bardism in literature - 1894 - 350 pages
...Homer ". ."Star of descending night ! fair is thy light in the west! thou liftest thy unshorn head from thy cloud : thy steps are stately on thy hill....rock. The flies of evening are on their feeble wings ; the hum of their course is on the field. What dost thou behold, fair light ? But thou dost smile... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 472 pages
...James Macpherson STAR of descending night! fair is thy light in the west! Thou liftest thy unshorn head from thy cloud; thy steps are stately on thy hill....rock. The flies of evening are on their feeble wings; the hum of their course is on the field. What dost thou behold, fair light? But thou dost smile and... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1901 - 406 pages
...to read. " Star of descending night ! fair is thy light in the west ! thou liftest thy unshorn head from thy cloud ; thy steps are stately on thy hill....rock. The flies of evening are on their feeble wings : the hum of their course is on the field. What dost thou behold, fair light? But thou dost smile and... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1901 - 956 pages
...to read. " Star of descending night ! fair is thy light in the west ! thou liftest thy unshorn head from thy cloud ; thy steps are stately on thy hill. What dost thou behold in the plain ? The etormy winds are laid. The murmur of the torrent comes from afar. Roaring waves climb the distant rock.... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...light in the west! thou liftest thy unshorn head from thy cloud; thy steps are stately on thy hill. 5 What dost thou behold in the plain ? The stormy winds...waves climb the distant rock. The flies of evening are w on their feeble wings; the hum of their course is on the field. What dost thou behold, fair light?... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - German literature - 1914 - 340 pages
...OF SELMA io. Star of descending night! fair is thy light in the west! thou liftest thy unshorn head from thy cloud; thy steps are stately on thy hill....rock. The flies of evening are on their feeble wings; the hum of their course is on the field. What dost thou behold, fair light? But thou dost smile and... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1914 - 340 pages
...OF SELMA io. Star of descending night! fair is thy light in the west! thou liftest thy unshorn head from thy cloud; thy steps are stately on thy hill....The stormy winds are laid. The murmur of the torrent cornes from afar. Roaring waves climb the distant rock. The flies of evening are on their feeble wings;... | |
| J W Von Goethe, Theodor Fontane, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm - Fiction - 1917 - 556 pages
...to read. "Star of descending night ! fair is thy light in the west ! thou liftest thy unshorn head from thy cloud ; thy steps are stately on thy hill....rock. The flies of evening are on their feeble wings : the hum of their course is on the field. What dost thou behold, fair light? But thou dost smile and... | |
| Rudolf Horstmeyer - German literature - 1926 - 136 pages
...Gesange des Jammers". Oder in der kurzen und glücklichen Übersetzung der Sätze: „The flies of the evening are on their feeble wings, and the hum of their course is on the field" durch „das Gesumme der Abendfliegen schwärmt übers Feld". Das Streben nach größerer Deutlichkeit... | |
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