As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail at dawn of day Are scarce long leagues apart descried ; When fell the night, upsprung the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied, Nor dreamt but each the... Thalatta: A Book for the Sea-side - Page 205edited by - 1853 - 206 pagesFull view - About this book
| England - 1862 - 818 pages
...volume before us, written in his earlier years : — " As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvass drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail at dawn of day Arc scarce long leagues apart descried; When foil the light, up sprung!the breeze, And all the darkling... | |
| Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...towers of sail at dawn of day, Are scarce long leagues apart descried ; " When fell the night, up sprung the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied,...the self-same seas By each was cleaving side by side : " E'en so — bnt why the tale reveal Of those whom year by year unchanged, Brief absence joined... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Burbidge - English poetry - 1849 - 170 pages
...; Some day thou shalt it view. Qua cur sum ventus. As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvass drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail at dawn...self-same seas By each was cleaving, side by side : E'en so—but why the tale reveal Of those, whom year by year unchanged, Brief absence joined anew... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Burbidge - English poetry - 1849 - 170 pages
...thou shalt it view. Qua cursum ventus. As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvass drooping,"side by side, Two towers of sail at dawn of day Are scarce...self-same seas By each was cleaving, side by side : E'en so — but why the tale reveal Of those, whom year by year unchanged, Brief absence joined anew... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Burbidge - English poetry - 1849 - 178 pages
...shalt it view. 49 Qua curium cental. As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay . With canvass drooping, Bide by side, Two towers of sail at dawn of day Are scarce...leagues apart descried ; \ When fell the night, upsprung tho breeze. And all the darkling hours they plied, ji Nor dreamt but each tho self-same seas ' By each... | |
| Literature - 1850 - 550 pages
...that a want of taste is sometimes discernible : — "As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvass drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail at dawn...self-same seas By each was cleaving, side by side : E'en so — but why the tale reveal Of those, whom, year by year unchanged, Brief absence joined... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...effusions, where, it must be candidly allowed, that a want of taste is sometimes discernible : — " he mind many thoughts of trifling separate value which...FEW SO WHITE, AS THEY ARE PAINTED. WHEN Shakspeare self-fame peas 15y each was cleaving-, side by side : E'en so— but why the tale reveal Of those,... | |
| American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...effusions, where, it must be candidly allowed, that a want of taste is sometimes discernible : — " As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping,...the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied, ^Jor dreamt but each the self-same seas E5y each was cleaving, side by side : 3'en so— but why the... | |
| American essays - 1875 - 782 pages
...becalmed at eye, that lay With canvas drooping, lida by aide, Two toweri of sail at dawn oi day An scarce long leagues apart descried ; " When fell the night, upsprung the breeze, And all the darkling boon they piled, Nor dreamt but each the self-same seas By each was cleaylng, Bide by side : " B'en... | |
| SMITH - 1862 - 924 pages
...little or none. Tin; nearest approach to poetry is perhaps in the following : — QUA CURSUM VENTUS. As ships becalmed at eve, that lay, With canvas drooping,...Two towers of sail at dawn of day Are scarce long lengues apart descried; TVhen fell the night, up sprung the href zc, And all the darkling hours they... | |
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