 | Friedrich Wilmsen - 1903 - 38 pages
...head — Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days ? Now thou lockest from the tower, but a few years and the blast of the desert comes, it howls in the empty court and whistles round the half worn shield. Stimmungsvolle Melancholie wird niemand dieser... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 pages
...shall single out the spot; By that remember'd, or with that forgot. 1803. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY ' How like to me — how like to thee, when gentle, For then we are all alike tower to-day : yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty court.' —... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 pages
...the spot; By that remember'd, or with that forgot. 1803. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY ' Why dost thon ke ; 86 1 eyes: Oh, may the; still of transport dream, And ne' tower to-day : yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty court .' —... | |
 | Joseph Pearson Farley - Hudson River - 1910 - 312 pages
...shook there its lonely 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...the hall, son of the 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!... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1916 - 480 pages
...the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house of her fathers. Raise the song of mourning, O bards, over the land of strangers. They have but fallen before...years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in £hy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield."* "They rose rustling like a flock of sea-fowl... | |
 | Reinhard Haferkorn - Architecture, Gothic - 1924 - 230 pages
...silence is in the house of her fathers. Raise the song of mourning, o bards! over the land of slrangers. They have but fallen before us: for one day we must...years, and the 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1962 - 598 pages
...the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round his head. Raise the song of mourning, O bards, over the land of strangers. They have but fallen before...day we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son 10 of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - Art - 2002 - 556 pages
...of its dilapidated mansions, applying the apposite and melancholy apostrophe attributed to Ossian, " Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days...the blast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty courts." Ard-Mulchan, the name of a village in the barony of Duleck, county Meath, comes from Ard,... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - History - 2007 - 537 pages
...of its dilapidated mansions, applying the apposite and melancholy apostrophe attributed to Ossian, " Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days...the blast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty courts." Ard-Mulchan, the name of a village in the barony of Duleck, county Meath, comes from Ard,... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - Ireland - 1834 - 578 pages
...of its dilapidated mansions, applying the apposite and melancholy apostrophe attributed to Ossian, " Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days?...the blast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty courts." Ard-Mulchan, the name of a village in the barony of Duleck, county Meath, comes from Ard,... | |
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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. 
