Blood bursts and smokes around. Strings murmur on the polished yews. Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of night. As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high. As the last peal of thunder... The Poems of Ossian - Page cxxxiv1807Full view - About this book
| Richard Green Moulton - Literature - 1911 - 550 pages
...yews. Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of night : as the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high. Ai the last peal of thunder in heaven, such is the din of war ! Though Cormac's hundred bards were... | |
| George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...the circles of light, which gild the face of night. As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll 85 the us in our sorrow, That earth hath something Though Cormac's hundred bards were there to give the fight to song ; feeble was the voice of a hundred... | |
| Leland Todd Powers - Communication - 1916 - 172 pages
...sounded on steel. Helmets are cleft on high; blood bursts and smokes around. As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high; as the last peal of the thunder of heaven; such is the noise of battle. 3. Like leaves on trees the life of man is found,... | |
| Meta Helena Miller - Comparative literature - 1925 - 218 pages
...yews. Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of night. As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the...peal of thunder in Heaven, such is the din of war ! Though Gormac's hundred bards were there, to give the fight to song ; feeble was the voice of a hundred... | |
| Poetry - 1926 - 482 pages
...along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of night. As the noise o> the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high. As...peal of thunder in heaven, such is the din of war 1 Though Cormac's hundred bards were there to give the fight to song ; feeble was the voice of a hundred... | |
| R. R. Agrawal - Art - 1990 - 316 pages
...yews. Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of night. As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the...peal of thunder in heaven, — such is the din of war!22 But the most thrilling and stirring is the description of the 21 Fingal l(ibid., I, 379-80).... | |
| Michael O'Clery - History - 2003 - 398 pages
...darts rush along the sky — spears fall like the circles of light, which brighten the face of night. As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high — as the last peal of the thunder in heaven, such is the din of battle — as rushes a stream of foam from the dark shady... | |
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