 | Katherine Augusta Ware - 1828 - 848 pages
...Ossian, ' should 'st j thou build thy hall, son of the winged days? — Thou lookest from thy ¡•¿-i towers to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes — it howls in the empty court, and whistles around thy half-worn shield ?' Then why should man look forth, as he... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...thoughts thy waters teach — ' Eternity, Eternity, and Power.' Barry Cornwall, ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. Why dost thou build the hall ? Son of the winged days ! Thou lookest from thy tower to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast o) the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty halls. Through... | |
 | Mrs. Monkland - 1828 - 310 pages
...CHAPTER VI. Son of the winged days, why dost thou build the hall ? Thou loolceit from thy towers to day ; yet a few years and the blast of the desert comes. It bowls through thy empty courts, and round thy half worn shield. The rank grass waves on the wall, and... | |
 | William Morgan Kinsey - Clothing and dress - 1829 - 704 pages
...wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house of her fathers. They have but fallen before us ; for one day we must...fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged day ? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day : yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes ; it... | |
 | William Morgan Kinsey - Clothing and dress - 1829 - 696 pages
...wall waved round its head . Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house of her fathers. They have but fallen before us ; for one day we must...fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged day ? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day : yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes ; it... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 498 pages
...worth, they were well entitled. MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. "Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy tower to-day : yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty court." —... | |
 | Dugald Moore - Scottish poetry - 1831 - 276 pages
...shadow ! thou shalt be the pall, The hoary sepulchre, that yet shall swallow all ! THE FLIGHT OF NERO. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Thou lookest from tliy tower to-day, yet a few years and the blast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty court.... | |
 | Ossian - 1834 - 218 pages
...her fathers. Raise the song of mourning, О bards! over the land of strangers. They have but fallea before us: for one day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lockest from thy towers to-dayi yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy... | |
 | Music - 1834 - 358 pages
...dwelling of Moina *; silence is in tlie house of her fathers. Raise the song of mourning, O bards ! over the land of strangers: they have but fallen before us ; for one day we must fall. .... Yet a few years, and the blast of tlie desert comes, and whistles round the half-worn shield.... | |
 | Mary Saunders - 1836 - 316 pages
...upon us so many deep and solemn emotions. We have lelt there the past above, about, and beneath us. " Why dost thou build the hall, son, of the winged days ? Thou lookest from thy tower to-day, yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes — it howls in thy empty court*."... | |
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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 desart comes; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. 
