 | Giacomo Leopardi, Michele Scherillo - 1924 - 542 pages
...volpe, a cui per le muscose mura Folta e lungh'erba Iva strisciando 11 volto. (« The thistle shcok there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox lcoked put from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head »). — E col passo leopardiano... | |
 | Eino Railo - 1927 - 434 pages
...the thistle in autumn's dusky vale " ; " the lonely blast of ocean pursues the thistle's beard " ; " the thistle shook there its lonely head, the moss whistled to the wind," sings the poet, overcome by the melancholy of solitude, unaware that he was creating a phrase that... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1929 - 1488 pages
...people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. Takes the ears windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence... | |
 | Roger Fiske - 1983 - 256 pages
...includes most of the following: The stream of Clutha was removed 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. - Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, silence... | |
 | R. R. Agrawal - 1990 - 316 pages
...another scene of nature's desolation: "I have seen the 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 its head."47 Also mark the solitary march of the sun... | |
 | Francesco Orlando - 2008 - 520 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Kevin J. Hayes - 2007 - 124 pages
...the people is no more. The stream of Clutha was removed 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."36 In "The armies of the Wilderness," Melville... | |
 | 1820 - 618 pages
...people is heard no more. The stream of Clntha was removed 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 bis head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, sileuce... | |
 | 152 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 1828 - 684 pages
...people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha is removed 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, and the rank grass of the wall waved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of Morna, silence... | |
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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... 
