 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1895 - 190 pages
...destinies of those who were doomed to perish in battle. It begins thus: " 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1898 - 936 pages
...the storm begins to lour. Haste the loom of lie!) prepare, Iron sleet of arrowy shower • Hurtles ID the darken'd air." But when they had heard a verse...the song well in the Norse language, and had often imng it to him when he asked them for an old song. They called it the \ " Magicians," or the " Enchantresses."... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 748 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. Iron sleet of arrowry shower Hurtles in the darken'd air." But when they had heard a verse or two more, they interrupted... | |
 | Harold Edgeworth Butler - English poetry - 1903 - 248 pages
...THE FATAL SISTERS Good Friday, 1014 AD An Ode. from the Norse tongue. Now the storm begins to lower (Haste, the loom of hell prepare), Iron sleet of arrowy shower, Hurtles in the darken 'd air. Glitt'ring lances are the loom, Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's... | |
 | Walter Scott - Orkney (Scotland) - 1906 - 606 pages
...of their own country. They listened with great ttention to the preliminary stanzas : — " Now the storm begins to lour Haste the loom of hell prepare,...sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air." Jut when they had heard a verse or two more, they interrupted the reader, riling him they knew the... | |
 | Jennie Day Haines - Artists' books - 1907 - 148 pages
...change from bad to worse of weather and of wind. —5— John Diyden. Now the storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of hell prepare,) Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air. From the Norse, 1029. (Translated by Thomas Gray.) Twas a night when the landsman seeks shelter And... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. 1754? 1775THE FATAL SISTERS Now the storm begins to lower (Haste, the loom of hell prepare!); Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air. Glitt'ring lances are the loom, 5 Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. 1754? 1775THE FATAL SISTERS Now the storm begins to lower (Haste, the loom of hell prepare!); Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air. Glitt'ring lances are the loom, 5 Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's... | |
 | United States - 1908 - 796 pages
...special ministers of Odin to conduct the fallen heroes to Valhalla. "Now the storm begins to lower (Haste the loom of hell prepare), Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken 'd air. Glitt'ring glances are the loom, Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier... | |
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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. 
