| Great Britain - 1831 - 502 pages
...rocky lair To warm her young, and to teach them spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing. O'er the deep ! Where the whale, and the shark, and the swordfish sleep, OiUflying the blast and the driving rain, The peterel telleth her tale in vain, For the mat iner curseth... | |
| Great Britain - 1831 - 496 pages
...whale, and the shark, and the snordfish sleep, Ontfiying the blast and the driving rain, The peterel telleth her tale in vain, For the mariner curseth the warning bird, That briugeth him news of the storms unheard. Ah ! thus doth the prophet of good or ill Meet bate from... | |
| Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...rocky lair To warm her young, and to teach them spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing ! O'er the deep ! O'er the deep ! Where the whale, and...Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The Petrel lellelh her tale — in vain; For the mariner curseth the warning bird Who bringcth him news of the... | |
| Bryan Waller Procter - 1832 - 270 pages
...rocky lair To warm her young, and to teach them spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing ! O'er the Deep ! O'er the Deep ! Where the whale, and...sword-fish sleep, Outflying the blast and the driving rain, 'Die Petrel tellcth her talc — in vain ; For the mariner curseth the warning bird Who bringeth him... | |
| Charles Doyne Sillery - 1834 - 248 pages
...storm ; it has been celebrated in song by the industrious " Barry Cornwall," who truly saith, — " The mariner curseth the warning bird, Who bringeth him news of the storms unheard !" NOTE 11. " The log was cast." The log is a flat piece of wood, the figure of a quarter of a code,... | |
| Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Birds - 1835 - 604 pages
...rocky lair To warm her young and teach them to spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing ! O'er the deep ! O'er the deep, Where the whale, and...curseth the warning bird, Who bringeth him news of the siorms unheard ! Ah ! thus does the Prophet of good or ill Meet hate from the creatures he serveth... | |
| Robert Dunn (animal-preserver, Hull.) - Birds - 1837 - 158 pages
...rocky lair To warm her young, and to teach them spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing. O'er the deep, o'er the deep, Where the whale, and...curseth the warning bird, Who bringeth him news of the storm unheard. Ah ! thus does the prophet of good or ill Meet hate from the creatures he serveth still,... | |
| Chronicles of the sea - 1838 - 488 pages
...rocky lair To warm her young, and teach them to spring, At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing. O'er the deep ! o'er the deep ! Where the whale, and the shark, and the sword-fish deep, Out-flying the blast and the driving rain. The Petrel telleth her tale— in vain ; For the mariner... | |
| Author of Charlie's discoveries - India - 1841 - 242 pages
...rocky lair, To warm her young and to teach them to spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing 1 O'er the deep ! o'er the deep ! Where the whale, and...curseth the warning bird, Who bringeth him news of the storm unheard I And thus does the prophet of good or ill Meet scorn from the creatures he serveth still... | |
| Francis Allyn Olmsted - Hawaii - 1841 - 390 pages
...slorihywing! Where the whale, and the shark, and the sword fish sleep, /; O'erttee deep! O'er the deep! Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The Petrel telleth her tale in vain ; For the mariner curse|h the warning bird Who bringeth himnews of the storms unheard ! Ah! thus does the prophet, of... | |
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