 | Ann Doherty - 1812
...• Helmets are cleft on high. 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 in... | |
 | Ossian - 1845
...steel. Helmets are cleft on high. 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 in heaven,... | |
 | James Macpherson - 1846
...fjerran". Denna rad har MACPHERSON på det most bisarra vis omskapat; den låter nemligej, hos honom: "Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of nig h t". *I) — — de fallne och huru de stupat, efter orden: hvarje hufvudlös kropp och döden,... | |
 | Ossian - 1870
...steeL Helmets are cleft on high. 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 in heaven,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Arthur, King - 1900 - 405 pages
...steel, helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smokes around. Strings twang on the polished yews. Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light that gild the stormy face of night. As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high:... | |
 | 1901
...steel. Helmets are cleft on high. 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. Swaran king of Lochlin. After a series of great actions he was killed in battle somewhere in Connaught,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 724 pages
...steel. Helmets are cleft on high. 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 in heaven,... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - Literature - 1911 - 502 pages
...steel. Helmets are cleft on high. 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. Ai the last peal of thunder in heaven,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 724 pages
...steel. Helmets are cleft on high. 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 in heaven,... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - LITERARY COLLECTIONS - 1916 - 1432 pages
...Helmets are cleft on high. Blood so bursts and smokes around. Strings murmur on the polished yews. nd wandering seem but folly, — Should we be loth to stir from home, 60 And yet be melancholy As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll 85 the waves on high; as the last peal of thunder in... | |
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