 I sat by Ballyshannon in the summer, And saw the salmon leap ; And I said, as I beheld the gallant creatures Spring glittering from the deep, Through the spray, and through the prone heaps striving onward To the calm clear streams above, 'So seekest thou...  The Academy - Page 1221886Full view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1865 - 838 pages
...spray, and through the prone heaps striving onward To the calm clear streams above, • So seekest thou thy native founts of freedom, Thomas Davis, In...bare deserted place of his plundered eyrie ; And I said, as he screamed and soared, ' So callest thou, thou wrathful-soaring Thomas Davis, For a nation's... | |
 | 1879 - 830 pages
...spray, and through the prone heaps striving on ward To the calm clear streams above, So seekest tbou thy native founts of freedom, Thomas Davis, In thy brightness of strength and lovo ! " I stood on Derrybawn in the autumn, And I heard the eagle call, With a clangorous cry of wrath... | |
 | 1884 - 658 pages
...onward To the calm clear streams above, So seekest thou thy native founts of freedom, Thomas Davis, " I stood on Derrybawn in the autumn, And I heard the...cry of wrath and lamentation That filled the wide mountain hall, O'er the bare deserted place of his plundered eyrie; And I said, as he screamed and... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - Law - 1878 - 72 pages
...Through the spray, and through the prone heaps striving onward To the calm deep streams above, So Meekest thou thy native founts of freedom, Thomas Davis, In thy brightness of strength and love. ' I stood by Derrybawn in the autumn, And I heard the eagle call, With a clangorous cry of wrath and lamentation.... | |
 | Irish ballads - 1881 - 268 pages
...the spray, and through the prone heaps striving onward To the calm clear streams above, 'So seekest thou thy native founts of freedom, Thomas Davis, In...cry of wrath and lamentation That filled the wide mountain hall, O'er the bare deserted place of his plundered eyrie ; And I said, as he screamed and... | |
 | John O'Hagan - 1887 - 94 pages
...the spray, and through the prone heaps striving onward To the calm clear streams above, So seekest thou thy native founts of freedom, Thomas Davis, In...cry of wrath and lamentation That filled the wide mountain hall, O'er the bare deserted place of his plundered eyrie ; And I said, as he screamed and... | |
 | Lady Mary Catharine Guinness Ferguson, Mary Catharine Guinness Ferguson - Ireland - 1896 - 386 pages
...streams above, "So leap'st thou to thy native founts of freedom, Thomas Davis, In the brightness of thy strength and love." I stood on Derrybawn in the Autumn,...cry of wrath and lamentation That filled the wide mountain hall, O'er the bare deserted place of his plundered eyrie ; And I said, as he screamed and... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomas William Rolleston - English poetry - 1900 - 640 pages
...the spray, and thro' the prone heaps striving onward To the calm clear streams above, ' So seekest thou thy native founts of freedom, Thomas Davis, In...cry of wrath and lamentation That filled the wide mountain hall, O'er the bare deserted place of his plundered eyrie ; And I said, as he screamed and... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomas William Rolleston - English poetry - 1900 - 646 pages
...the spray, and thro' the prone heaps striving onward To the calm clear streams above, ' So seekest thou thy native founts of freedom, Thomas Davis, In thy brightness of strength and love I ' I stood on Derrybawn in the autumn, And I heard the eagle call, With a clangorous cry of wrath and... | |
 | Jane T. Stoddart - 1900 - 198 pages
...the spray and through the prone heaps striving onward, To the calm, clear streams above, So seekest thou thy native founts of freedom, Thomas Davis, In thy brightness of strength and love." Mr. Stead once wrote that no one would dream of counting Lord Rosebery among the "conventional ecclesiastical... | |
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