 ... 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 thy empty...  Specimens of the Russian Poets - Pàgina 861821 - 239 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 362 pàgines
...blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. And let the blast of the desert come! we shall be renowned...heard in my hall. When thou, sun of heaven, shalt faill if thou shalt fail, thou mighty light! if thy brightness is but for a season, like Fingal, our... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pàgines
...blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half- worn shield. Let the blast of the desert come ! we shall be renowned in our day." All Europe felt the power of that melancholy ; but what I wish to point ont is, that no nation in Europe... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1866 - 826 pàgines
...the blast of the desert come? ; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. Let the blast of 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... | |
 | Dublin University Magazine,A Literary and Political Journal - 1867 - 726 pàgines
...the blast of the desert cornea. It howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half worn shield. Let the blast of the desert come ; we shall be renowned in. our day ! " 416 " Alai, whither go the men that were That they come not to succour me! O Osgur of the sharp... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 218 pàgines
...the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. Let the blast of 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... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - 1867 - 420 pàgines
...and whistles round thy half-worn shield." And with pride of mournful resignation genius replies, " Let the blast of the desert come ! We shall be renowned in our day." In the light of the collective biography of the finer members of our race we are almost tempted to... | |
 | Ossian - 1870 - 596 pàgines
...blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half- worn shield. And let the blast of the desert come ! we shall be renowned...in the song of bards. Raise the song ; send round He calls on the bards to "raise the grief of songs " 1'or the desolate dwelling of Moina. He reproaches... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1875 - 622 pàgines
...empty eourt, and whistles round the half-worn shield. And let the blast of the desert eome! we shall he renowned in our day ! the mark of my arm shall be in battle ; my name in the song of hards. Raise the song; send round the shell: let joy be heard in my hall. When thou, sun of heaven,... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 pàgines
...gleam." of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty eourt, and whistles round the half-worn shield. And let the blast of the desert come! we shall be renowned...joy be heard in my hall. When thou, sun of heaven, shall fail! if thou shall fail, thou mighty light: if thy brightness is for a season, like Fingal;... | |
 | John Ross - 1878 - 786 pàgines
...blast of the desert comes. It howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield. And let the blast of the desert come ! we shall be renowned in our day. The mark of my arm shall be in the battle, and my name in the song of bards. Raise the song, send round the shell : and let joy be... | |
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