| Bryan Waller Procter - 1832 - 270 страници
...STORMY PETREL; S BT TO MUHC HV A THOUSAND miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea ; From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake, like quivering reeds, The mighty cables, and... | |
| 1832 - 406 страници
...«lhcr Poemt, bj Barry Cornwall.'] A THOUSAND miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea; From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast: The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake, like quivering reeds, The mighty cables, and... | |
| Gerritt Van Husen Forbes - 1833 - 32 страници
...the forerunner of the storm : A THOUSAND miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea ; From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering reeds, The mighty cables, and iron... | |
| 1838 - 448 страници
...have something yet to suffer. " Amid the pitiless storm were we Tossing about on the roaring sea ; From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast." Well ! we got safe to land, and therefore, I need not now " sing of the dangers of the sea." Paris... | |
| Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 страници
...Cornwall. THE STORMY PETREL. A thousand miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea ; From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering reeds ; The mighty cables and iron... | |
| Robert Dunn (animal-preserver, Hull.) - 1837 - 158 страници
...prove acceptable to the reader. " A thousand miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea, From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast ; The sails are scattered abroad like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering reeds, The mighty cables and iron... | |
| Carlton BRUCE (pseud. [i.e. George Mogridge.]) - 1837 - 300 страници
...something yet to see, and to suffer. " Amid the pitiless storm were we Tossing about on the roaring sea ; From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast." Well ! we got safe to land, and therefore, I need not now " sing the dangers of the sea." Paris we... | |
| Chronicles of the sea - 1838 - 488 страници
...THE STORMY PETREL.- • • A thousand miles from tend or tree, Tossing about on the roaring sea ; From billow to bounding billow cast. Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast, When sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, And strong masts shake, like quivering reeds. The mighty... | |
| 1872 - 516 страници
...Barry Cornwall sings — " A thousand miles from land are we Tossing about on the roaring sea. Prom billow to bounding billow cast Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast. Up and down, up and down From the base of the wave to the billows' crown. Yet amid the flashing and... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 страници
...! HEBER. THE STORMY PETREL.* A THOUSAND miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea ; From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scatter'd about like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering reeds ; The mighty cables and iron chains,... | |
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