 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 court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield.  St. Clair; Or, The Heiress of Desmond - Page 185by Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1812Full view - About this book
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...mourning, O bards! over the 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 upon thy towers to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast a Rev. A. Clerk's translation of the same passage... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...that, shall single out the spot ; By that remember'd, or with that forgoL ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. "Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days?...thy tower to-day ; yet a few years, and the blast of ,he desert comes, it howls in thy empty courL"— OSSIAN. THEOUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...O bards, over the 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 today ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes. It howls in thy empty court, and... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...O bards, over the 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 today ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes. It howls in thy empty court, and... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 336 pages
...strangers! They have but fallen before us, for 1 Campbell: Lochiel's Warning. 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 court, and... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1878 - 324 pages
...strangers! They have but fallen before us, foi 1 Campbell: Lochiel's Warning. 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 court, and... | |
 | Isaac Brandon - 1811 - 598 pages
...forgot. 1808. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY.' " Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days T Thou lookest from thy tower to-day : yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty court." — OasiAN. TBROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...the spot ; By that rememher'd, or with that forgot. ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY. "Why dost thou huild mes, or greater still, retrace, When all to feehler hards resign their place? Yet to such times hlast of the desert comes, it howls in thy empty court." — OSSIAN. THEOUGH thy hattlements, Newstead,... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - Circuit courts - 1880 - 478 pages
...Bride, and found where Barry Yelverton lived. A few stones mark the spot. I thought with Ossian, — "Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days. Thou lookest from thy towers to-day — in a few years the blast of the desert comes ; it howls through thy empty courts,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...0 bards! 298 over the 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 court, and... | |
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