 I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls: and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely...  The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson - Page 68by Ossian - 1790Full view - About this book
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows ; the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina; silence is in the house... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - English poetry - 1883 - 372 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows ; the rank grass of the wall waved round his head." It is an eerie wail out of the solitude. We are blown hither... | |
 | Harry Butler SIMPSON - 1888 - 222 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house... | |
 | Art objects - 1888 - 318 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved around its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - Bards and bardism in literature - 1894 - 350 pages
...its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook, there, its lonely head : the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 496 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1898 - 344 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence is in the house... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head; the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows; the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina; silence is in the house... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - Mississippi River Valley - 1906 - 436 pages
...walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The thistle shook there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows; the rank grass of the wall waved round his head." — OSSIAN. "We do love these ancient ruins: We never tread... | |
 | Giacomo Leopardi - 1907 - 450 pages
...lungh'erba iva strisciando il volto. («The thistle shook there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the Windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head »). — E col passo leopardiano è da confrontare altresì... | |
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