Poems about dark-brown (21 Poems)
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Fingal – Book Vi (James Macpherson Poems)
ARGUMENT. Night comes on. Fingal gives a feast to his army, at which Swaran is present. The king commands Ullin his bard to give ‘the song of peace;’ a custom always observed at the end of a war. Ullin relates … Continue reading
Coombe-Ellen (William Lisle Bowles Poems)
Call the strange spirit that abides unseenIn wilds, and wastes, and shaggy solitudes,And bid his dim hand lead thee through these scenesThat burst immense around! By mountains, glens,And solitary cataracts that dashThrough dark ravines; and trees, whose wreathed rootsO’erhang the … Continue reading
The Celt’s Paradise. First Duan (John Banim Poems)
OSSIAN. Man of prayers, lead me forthFrom our silent cell of care,The morning–breeze to me is worthAll thy hymns and all thy prayer–For dark and loncly have we prayed–Our psalms are sung, our penance said–Thou hast told me, I am forgiven,And … Continue reading
Calthon And Colmal (James Macpherson Poems)
This piece, as many more of Ossian’s compositions, is addressed to one of the first Christian missionaries. The story of the poem is handed down by tradition thus:- In the country of the Britons, between the walls, two chiefs lived … Continue reading
Cathlin Of Clutha (James Macpherson Poems)
An address to Malvina, the daughter of Toscar. The poet relates the arrival of Cathlin in Selma, to solicit aid against Duth-carmor of Cluba, who had killed Cathmol for the sake of his daughter Lanul. Fingal declining to make a … Continue reading
Comala, A Dramatic Poem (James Macpherson Poems)
This poem. is valuable on account of the light it throws on the antiquity of Ossian’s compositions. The Caracul mentioned here is the same with Caracalla, the son of Severus, who, in the year 211, commanded an expedition against the … Continue reading
Malcolm’s Heir (Joanna Baillie Poems)
O, go not by Dunorloch’s wallsWhen the moon is in the wane,And cross not o’er Dunorloch’s bridge,The farther bank to gain!For there the Lady of the StreamIn dripping robes you’ll spy,A-singing to her pale wan babeAn eldrich lullaby.And stop not … Continue reading
Cathloda – Duan III (James Macpherson Poems)
Ossian, after some general reflections, describes the situation of Fingal, and the position of the army of Lochlin. – The conversation of Starno and Swaran. – The episode of Corman-trunar and Foina-bragal. – Starno, from his own example, recommends to … Continue reading
By Flood and Field 2 (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
They have saddled a hundred milk-white steeds,They have bridled a hundred black.-Old Ballad.‘He turned in his saddle, now follow who dare,I ride for my country, quoth . . .’-Lawrence. I REMEMBER the lowering wintry morn,And the mist on the Cotswold … Continue reading
Late October (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Ah, haughty hills, sardonic solitudes, What wizard touch hath, crowning you with gold, Cast Tyrian purple o’er broad-shouldered woods, And to your pride anointed empire sold For wan traditioned death, whose misty moods Shake each huge throne of quarried shadows cold? Now where the agate-foliaged … Continue reading
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