 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Hans Christian Andersen - 1871 - 314 pages
...great ornament on account of its decayed state. It was as if Ossian meant this place when he sang, " 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." It was the last remains of the castle of... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1820 - 566 pages
...people is heard no more. The stream oi Clullia 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 w all waved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of .Moina, 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... 
