 O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers, whence are thy beams O sun, thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale sinks in the western wave; but thou thyself...  The British Essayists: Guardian - Page 68edited by - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 350 pages
...thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave....can be a companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountains fall : the mountains themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again : the... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 308 pages
...beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the " sky : The moon, cold and pale, sinks in the wesvl tern wave, but thou thyself movest alone : Who '• can be a companion of thy course ? The oaks of i; the mountain fall ; the mountains themselves decay " with years ; the ocean shrinks, and grows again... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Darnley murder - 1804 - 556 pages
...everlasting light ? Thou " comest forth in thy awful beauty ! the stars bide tkem" selves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the " western wave ; but thou thyself movest alone, who can be " the companion of thy course !" " 0 theity that with surpassing glory crowned, " Look'st from thy... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...sunk beneath the western streams, .And Venus' orb was shorn of halt its beams. selves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave....can be a companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountains fall ; the mountains themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...everlasting light ? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave....can be a companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountains fall : the mountains themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again : the... | |
 | James Macpherson, Archibald M'Donald - 1805 - 308 pages
...everlasting light ? Thou comest forth " in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; " the moon, cold, and pale, sinks in the western wave....thou thyself movest alone: who can be a companion in thy " course! the oaks of the mountains fall: the mountains theui" selves decay with years; the... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave....can be a companion of thy course! The oaks of the mountains fall: the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again: the moon... | |
 | William Belsham - 1806 - 646 pages
...everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; and the stars hide themselves in the sky. The moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou, thou thyself movest alone ! Who can be a companion of thy course? The oaks of the mountains fall} the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 354 pages
...everlasting light ! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky : The moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave,...mountain fall ; the mountains themselves decay with ytars ; the ocean shrinks, and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in Heaven ; but thou art for... | |
 | Thomas Hogg - 1811 - 120 pages
...themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western teave ;— the oaktqfthe mountains fall : the mountains themselves decay with years :...shrinks and grows again: the moon herself is lost in the heavens : b»t thou art for ever the same.-—f^hen the world is dark with tempests; when thunder... | |
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