 Star of descending night ! fair is thy light in the west ! thou liftest thy unshorn head from thy cloud ; thy steps are stately on thy hill. What dost thou behold in the plain? The stormy winds are laid. The murmur of the torrent comes from afar. Roaring...  The Poems of Ossian - Page 391803Full view - About this book
 | Bards and bardism - 1765 - 416 pages
...from thy cloud : thy fteps are ftately on thy hill. What deft thou behold in the plain ? The ftormy winds are laid; The murmur of the torrent comes from afar. Roaring waves climb the diftant rock. The flies of evening are on * This poem fixes the antiquity of a cuflom, which is well... | |
 | Ossian - 1790 - 446 pages
...from thy cloud : thy fteps are ftately on thy hill. What doft thou behold in the plain ,? The ftormy winds are laid. The murmur of the torrent comes from afar. Roaring waves climb the diftant rock. The flies of evening are on their feeble wings ; the hum of their courfe is on the field.... | |
 | 1799 - 252 pages
...from thy cloud : thy fteps are ftately on thy hill. What doft thou behold in the plain ? The ftcrmy winds are laid. The murmur of the torrent comes from afar. Roaring waves climb the diftant rock. The flies of evening are on their feeble wings, and the hum of their courfe is on the... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...to an annual custom established by the monarchs of the ancient Caledonians. MAC THE SONGS OF SELMA. STAR of descending night ! fair is thy light in the...head from thy cloud * : thy steps are stately on thy 1 Star of descending night ! fair is thy light in the nest.] From Per. Lost, v. 166'. Fairest of stars... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...with ail tliat tranquillity and iuftlieas, which the eieae described naturally inspires. SrAR of the descending night ! fair is thy light in the west ! thou liftest thy unshorn hend from thy cloud ; thy steps are stately on thy hill. What dost thou behold in the plain ? The stormy... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...sleep descends, in the sound of the harp! pleasant dreams begin to rise! 5(86 THE WAR OF INIS-THONA. Ye sons of the chace, stand far distant, nor disturb...waves climb the distant rock. The flies of evening are on their feeble wings; the hum of their course is on the field. What dost thou behold, fair light?... | |
 | Domestic, literary and village sketches - Great Britain - 1823 - 168 pages
...? Are these his groans on the wind ?" Now touch we the harp again, and address the evening star. " Star of descending night ! fair is thy light in the...laid. The murmur of the torrent comes from afar."* " I behold my departed friends. Their gathering is on Lora, as in the days of other years. Fingal comes... | |
 | Dugald Moore - Scottish poetry - 1831 - 276 pages
...lifeless haze each icy summit shrouds, And huge Ben-Cruachan is hid in clouds. SUMMER EVENING SHOWER Star of descending night ! fair Is thy light in the...unshorn head from thy cloud ; thy steps are stately on the hill. OSSIAH. THE playful breeze is dancing through the dell, Breaking the azure crystal of the... | |
 | 1834 - 438 pages
...it» fire . Intenser forth and higher. PEKCIVAL MISCELLANY. OSSIAN'S ADDRESS то THE Evcnine STAR. Star of descending night ! fair is thy light in the...liftest thy unshorn head from thy cloud : thy steps лге stately on thy hill. What dost thou behold in the plain ? The stormy winds are laid. The murmur... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...soul. Her blue eves rolled on him in secret ; and she blest the chief" of Morven. [The Songi of Selma.] adual change was here, Yet ghastly. For, as fast years flow away, The smooth brow gathers, and thé wave« climb the distant rock. The flics of evening are on their feeble wings ; the hum of their course... | |
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