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Page 85
... reach it , by a law Of never - failing love ; Then perching at his consort's side , Was briskly borne along ; The billows and the blasts defied , And cheered her with a song . The seaman , with sincere delight , His feathered shipmate ...
... reach it , by a law Of never - failing love ; Then perching at his consort's side , Was briskly borne along ; The billows and the blasts defied , And cheered her with a song . The seaman , with sincere delight , His feathered shipmate ...
Page 107
... reach the shore , and the sea is calin . Make the best of your way to shore ; but if you come near the boat , I'll shoot you through the head , for I am resolved to have my liberty . " So he turned himself about and swam for the shore ...
... reach the shore , and the sea is calin . Make the best of your way to shore ; but if you come near the boat , I'll shoot you through the head , for I am resolved to have my liberty . " So he turned himself about and swam for the shore ...
Page 111
... reach- ing the islands . But , having tried twice , I was forced in again by contrary winds , the sea also running too high for my little vessel . So I resolved to pursue my first design , and keep along the shore . Several times we ...
... reach- ing the islands . But , having tried twice , I was forced in again by contrary winds , the sea also running too high for my little vessel . So I resolved to pursue my first design , and keep along the shore . Several times we ...
Page 114
... reach , I fired , and shot him right in the head . Immediately he sank , but rose instantly , and plunged up and down as if he were struggling for life ; and so indeed he was . He endeavoured to make for the shore , but both the wound ...
... reach , I fired , and shot him right in the head . Immediately he sank , but rose instantly , and plunged up and down as if he were struggling for life ; and so indeed he was . He endeavoured to make for the shore , but both the wound ...
Page 115
... reach one nor the other . In this difficulty , as I was very pensive , I stepped into the cabin , and sat down , Xury having the helm , when on a sudden the boy cried out , " Master , master , a ship with a sail ! " The foolish boy was ...
... reach one nor the other . In this difficulty , as I was very pensive , I stepped into the cabin , and sat down , Xury having the helm , when on a sudden the boy cried out , " Master , master , a ship with a sail ! " The foolish boy was ...
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Page 140 - I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Page 21 - And sweep through the deep While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave! For the deck it was their field of fame, And ocean was their grave ; Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 204 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 92 - Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours. Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery...
Page 214 - Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace, Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Page 205 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bridemaidens whispered, " 'Twere better by far, To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 96 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Page 141 - I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers ; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow for happy lovers. I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance, Among my skimming swallows ; I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows. I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses ; I linger by my shingly bars ; I loiter round my cresses ; And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Page 204 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note— As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 95 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.