 | Alfred Bate Richards - War poetry - 1854 - 364 pages
...find ; * See the magnificent lines entitled the " Fatal Sisters":— " Now the storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of hell prepare), Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken' d air. " Glittering lances are the loom, When the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...Saul ! " THE FATAL SISTERS. TRANSLATED FROM THE NORSE TONGUE, BY GRAY. Now the storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of hell prepare,) Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air. Glittering lances are the loom Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's... | |
 | Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland - Ireland - 1858 - 546 pages
...poetical rhapsody, the English poet Gray has called up the spirit of poesy, as follows : — " Now the storm begins to lour, Haste, the loom of hell prepare, Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air. Glittering lances are the loom, Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's... | |
 | George Hatton Colomb - 1862 - 392 pages
...enemy are upon us !" The whole party rushed from the tent. CHAPTER VI. Now the storm begins to lower (Haste, the loom of hell prepare), Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air. Sisters hence with spurs of speed ; Each her thundering falchions wield, Each bestride... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - 360 pages
...of their own country. They listened with great attention to the preliminary stanzas : — " Now the storm begins to lour, Haste the loom of hell prepare,...often sung it to him when he asked them for an old soug. They called it the Magicians; or the Enchantresses. It would have been singular news to the elegant... | |
 | Cheltenham College - College verse - 1868 - 570 pages
...тгаpecrв" ëKovTi тreiвecrваí TаSe. HR, 1850. THE FATAL SISTERS. Now the storm begins to lower, (Haste the loom of Hell prepare,) Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air. Glittering lances are the loom Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's doom, Orkney's... | |
 | Daniel Gorrie - Orkney (Scotland) - 1868 - 410 pages
...They listened with great attention to the preliminary stanzas : — ' Now the storm begins to lower, Haste the loom of hell prepare, Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air.' But when they heard a verse or two more, they interrupted the reader, telling him they... | |
 | Daniel Gorrie - Orkney (Scotland) - 1868 - 404 pages
...They listened with great attention to the preliminary stanzas:— ' Now the storm begins to lower, Haste the loom of hell prepare, Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air.' But when they heard a verse or two more, they interrupted the reader, telling him they... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1871 - 502 pages
...of their own country. They listened with great attention to the preliminary stanzas : — " Now the storm begins to lour, Haste the loom of hell prepare...shower Hurtles in the darken'd air." But when they heard a verse or two more, they interrupted the reader, telling him they knew the song well in the... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1871 - 376 pages
...Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers." Milton, P, R., b. iii. " Now the storm begins to lour, (Haste, the loom of hell prepare,)...sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air." Gray, Fatal Sisters, 1. " Nay' more, my lord, the masks are made so strong. That I myself upon them... | |
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Now the storm begins to lour, Haste the loom of hell prepare, Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air. 
