Hours of Idleness: A Series of Poems, Original and TranslatedW.T. Sherwin, 1820 - 160 pages |
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adieu Allan's Alva's Anacreon Angus bard beam beauty Beltane bend beneath bless blood bosom breast breath brow Calmar cheek controul coursers crowds dark Loch dead dear death deeds dream dwell dying Euryalus expire falchion fame fate fear Fingal fire flame flow foes fond friendship frown FUGITIVE PIECES gale gaze gleaming gloomy glory glow hall hapless heart hero's heroes honour hope hour Iulus Latian live Loch na Garr Lochlin locks LORD BYRON lyre Mathon Medea Messapus mingle Mora Morven mourn ne'er Newstead NEWSTEAD ABBEY night Nisus Nisus and Euryalus numbers o'er once Orla Oscar OSSIAN pride raise resign rise roll roved sacred scene seek shade sigh sire sleep slumber smiles song sooth soul spear stamp'd storm strain tears thee thine thou thrice throng Tibullus TRANSLATION trembling Turnus twill voice Volscens wave wild wings wonted youth
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Page 120 - Ah ! there my young footsteps in infancy wander'd ; My cap was the bonnet, my cloak was the plaid ; On chieftains long perish'd my memory ponder'd, As daily I strode through the...
Page 122 - Shades of the dead ! have I not heard your voices Rise on the night-rolling breath of the gale!" Surely the soul of the hero rejoices, And rides on the wind o'er his own Highland vale.
Page 1 - THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my fathers, art gone to decay ; In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have choked up the rose which late bloom'd in the way.
Page 63 - ANIMULA! vagula, blandula, Hospes, comesque, corporis, Quse nunc abibis in loca? Pallidula, rigida, nudula, Nee, ut soles, dabis jocos.
Page 121 - I strode through the pine-cover'd glade ; I sought not my home till the day's dying glory Gave place to the rays of the bright polar star ; For fancy was cheer'd by traditional story, Disclosed by the natives of dark Loch na Garr.
Page 63 - Ah ! Gentle, fleeting, wav'ring sprite, Friend and associate of this clay ! To what unknown region borne, Wilt thou now wing thy distant flight? No more, with wonted humour gay, But pallid, cheerless, and forlorn.
Page 1 - 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.
Page 123 - Years have roll'd on, Loch na Garr, since I left you, Years must elapse ere I tread you again ; Nature of verdure and flowers has bereft you, Yet still are you dearer than Albion's plain. England ! thy beauties are tame and domestic To one who has roved o'er the mountains afar : Oh for the crags that are wild and majestic, The steep frowning glories of dark Loch na Garr ! TO ROMANCE.
Page 120 - AWAY, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses ! In you let the minions of luxury rove ; Restore me the rocks, where the snow-flake reposes, Though still they are sacred to freedom and love : Yet, Caledonia, beloved are thy mountains, Round their white summits though elements war ; Though cataracts foam 'stead of smooth-flowing fountains, I sigh for the valley of dark Loch na Garr.