 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 282 pages
...Strina-dona! If on the heath she moved, her breaft was whiter than the down of Cana (i) ; if on the fea'-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling ocean. Her eyes were two ftars of light; her face was heaven's bow in showers ; her dark hair flowed round it, like the ftreaming... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 350 pages
...high-bosomed Strina-dona ! If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana ;* if on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling...in showers. Her dark hair flowed round it, like the streaming clouds. Thou wert the dweller of souls, white-handed Strina-dona! ft Colgorm came, in his... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 352 pages
...moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana ;* if on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of die rolling ocean. Her eyes were two stars of light. Her...in showers. Her dark hair flowed round it, like the streaming clouds. Thou wert die dweller of souls, white-handed Strina-dona! Colgorm came, in his ship,... | |
 | James Macpherson - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1805 - 338 pages
...there is none of a Gaelic original, except Strina-dona, which signifies, the strife of heroes. beat shore, than the foam of the rolling ocean. Her eyes...in showers. Her dark hair flowed round it, like the streaming clouds. Thou wort the dweller of souls, white-handed Strinadona ! Colgorm came, in his ship,... | |
 | James Macpherson - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1805 - 336 pages
...there is none of a Gaelic original, except Strina-dona, which signifies, the strife of heroes. beat shore, than the foam of the rolling ocean. Her eyes...in showers. Her dark hair flowed round it, like the streaming clouds. Thou wert the dweller of souls, white-handed Strinadona! Colgorm came, in his ship,... | |
 | Ossian - 1807 - 458 pages
...highbosomed Strina-dona! " If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana;' if on the seabeat shore, than the foam of the rolling...in showers. Her dark hair flowed round it, like the streaming clouds. Thou wert the dweller of souls, white-handed Strina-dona! " Colgorm came, in his... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1810 - 364 pages
...high-bosoracd Strina-dona. If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana;* if on the seabeat shore, than the foam of the rolling...in showers. Her dark hair flowed round it like the streaming clouds. Thou wcrt the dweller of souls, white-handed Strina-dona! Colgorm came in his ship,... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1812 - 370 pages
...high-bosomed Strina-dona! if on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana *; if on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling...in showers. Her dark hair flowed round it, like the streaming clouds. Thou wert the dweller of souls, white-handed Strina-dona ! Colgorm came, in his ship,... | |
 | Alexander Stewart - Bards and bardism - 1819 - 610 pages
...Strina-dona is thus described: " If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana; if on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling...in showers. Her dark hair flowed round it, like the streaming clouds." Dr Blair, in his admirable dissertation, had praised the tenderness of Tibullus,... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...the soft lustre of soul; Dark glances adorning The flashes of fire from her eye-balls that roll; 1 Her eyes were two stars of light. Her face was heaven's bow in showers. Her dark hair flowed around it like the streaming clouds.—Cath-Loda. Her soul was like a stream of light.—Colna-Dona.... | |
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