 ... sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave; but thou thyself movest alone. Who can be a companion of thy course? The oaks of the mountains fall...  Sandwich Island Notes - Page 327by Haölé, George Washington Bates - 1854 - 493 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1802 - 216 pages
...years ; the ocean shrinks, and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in Heaven ; but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempest ; when thunder rolls, and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 308 pages
...the ocean shrinks, and grows again ; " the moon herself is lost in heaven ; but thou art " for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of " thy course. When the world is dark frith tem" pests ; when thunder rolls, and lightning flies, " thou lookest in thy benuty from the clouds,... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again : the moon herself is lost in heaven ; but thou art for ever the same; rejoicing in the brightness of thy course....lookest in thy beauty, from the clouds, and laughest af the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more ; whether thy yellow... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...youth, Unhurt amidst the tear of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. That is, " When the world is dark with tempests; when thunder rolls and lightning ßies; thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest'at the storm." But the variations of... | |
 | William Belsham - 1806 - 646 pages
...years; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost In heaven : but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course...flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and Jaughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest ia vain ! for he beholds thy beams no more ; whether... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 338 pages
...years ; the ocean shrinks, and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in Heaven ; but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark ' with tempest ; when thunder rolls, and lightning * flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, '... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in the heavens ; but thou art for ever the*same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempests, when thunders roll, and lightnings fly, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 716 pages
...the mountains fall; the mountains themselv> s decay with years. The ocean shrinks and grows again — the Moon herself is lost in heaven; but thou art forever...in the brightness of thy course. When the world is diu-k with tempest: when thunder rolls and lightning flies: thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds,... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...the moon herself is lost in heaven ; but thou,art forever the same ; rejoicing in the brighjt•less of thy course. When the world is dark with tempests...lookest in thy beauty, from the clouds, and laughest at 'he storm. Cut to Ossian, thou lookest in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more ; whether thy yellow... | |
 | Elizabeth Carter - 1817 - 378 pages
...may remind the reade,r of Ossian's address to the Sun, in the conclusion of the poem pf " Carthon." " When the world is dark •with tempests; when thunder...in. thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the *torm." proved by the " Silver Medway," which glides through a very arcadian valley, within sight of... | |
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