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Keyword: james macpherson
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AS A HUNDRED WINDS ON MORVEN, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


AS THE DARK SHADES OF AUTUMN FLY OVER HILLS OF GRASS, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


BATTLE OF LORA, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Son of the distant land, who dwellest in the secret
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


CALTHON AND COLMAL, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Pleasant is the voice of thy song, thou lonely dweller
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


CARRIC-THURA, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Hast thou left thy blue course in heaven, golden-haired
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


CARTHON, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A tale of the times of old! The deeds of days of other years
Last Line: The blast of the north is on the plain; %the traveller shrinks in the midst of his journey
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian
Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Mythology - Gaelic


CATH-LODA, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A tale of the times of old! %why, thou wanderer unseen
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


CATHLIN OF CLUTHA, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Come, thou beam that art lonely, from watching in
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


COLNA-DONA, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Col-amon of troubled streams, dark wanderer of
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


COMALIA, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The chase is over. No noise on
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


CROMA, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: It was the voice of my love! Seldom art thou in ...'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


DAR-THULA, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Daughter of heaven, fair art thou! The silence
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


DEATH OF CUTHULLIN, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Is the wind on the shield of fingal? Or is the
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


FINGAL, SELS., by JAMES MACPHERSON            Poet Analysis            
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian
Subject(s): Love


FINGAL: BOOK 1, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Cuthullin sat by tura's wall; by the tree of the
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


FINGAL: BOOK 2, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Connal lay by the sound of the mountain-stream
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


FINGAL: BOOK 3, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Pleasant are the words of the song!' said cuthullin
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


FINGAL: BOOK 4, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Who comes with her songs from the hill, like the
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


FINGAL: BOOK 5, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: On cromla's resounding side connal spoke to the
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


FINGAL: BOOK 6, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The clouds of night came rolling down. Darkness
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


FRAGMENTS OF ANCIENT POETRY, COLLECTED IN HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, SELECTION, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I sit by the mossy fountain; on top of the hill of winds
Last Line: Passest, when mid-day is silent around.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


LATHMON, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Selma, thy halls are silent. There is no sound in
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


NEAR US ARE THE FOES. THEY COME FORWARD LIKE WAVES, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian
Subject(s): Sea


OINA-MORUL, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: As flies the inconstant sun over larmon's grassy
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


OITHONA, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Darkness dwells around dunlathmon, though the
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


OSSIAN'S SONG OF SORROW, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: Six childless men were we, who ne'er thought harm
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian
Subject(s): Friendship


QUEEN OF LOCHLIN, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


SONGS OF SELMA, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Star of descending night! Fair is thy light in the west
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


SONS OF SONG ARE GONE TO REST, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian
Subject(s): Sea


SUL-MALLA OF LUMON, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Who moves so stately on lumon, at the roar of the
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


TEMORA: BOOK 1, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The blue waves of erin roll in light. The mountains
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


TEMORA: BOOK 2, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Father of heroes! O trenmor! High dweller of
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


TEMORA: BOOK 3, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Who is that at blue-streaming lubar? Who, by ...'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


TEMORA: BOOK 4, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Beneath an oak,' said the king, 'I sat on selma's ...'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


TEMORA: BOOK 5, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Thou dweller between the shields that hang, on high
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


TEMORA: BOOK 6, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Catimor rises on his hill! Shall fingal take the
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


TEMORA: BOOK 7, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: From the wood-skirted waters of lego ascend, at
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


TEMORA: BOOK 8, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: As when the wintry winds have seized the waves of
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


WAR OF CAROS, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Bring, daughter of toscar, bring the harp! The light
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


WAR OF INIS-THONA, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Our youth is like the dream of the hunter on the
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian


WAVES CROWD AWAY. THEY CROWD AWAY FOR FEAR, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian