 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 pages
...the World, Act II. Scene ii. ISAAC WATTS (1674-1748) THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT WHEN the fierce North-wind with his airy forces Rears up the Baltic to a foaming fury ; And the red lightning with a storm of hail comes Rushing amain down; How the poor sailors stand amazed and tremble, While the hoarse... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 528 pages
...what I most desire ; Not a mother's fondest wishes Can to greater joys aspire. The Day of Judgment An Ode Attempted in English Sapphic When the fierce...Baltic to a foaming fury ; And the red lightning with a storm of hail comes Rushing amain down. How the poor sailors stand amaz'd and tremble ! While the hoarse... | |
 | Gordon Crosse - Religious poetry, English - 1924 - 288 pages
...Joseph Addison. 130 THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT* AN ODE ATTEMPTED IN ENGLISH SAPPHIC WHEN the fierce North-wind with his airy forces Rears up the Baltic to a foaming fury, And the red lightning with a storm of hail comes Rushing atnain down, How the poor sailors stand amazed and tremble, While the hoarse... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English literature - 1924 - 324 pages
...subject (by which I mean, unpromising for Sapphics) of the .Day of Judgment: When the fierce North-wind with his airy forces Rears up the Baltic to a foaming fury; And the red lightning with a storm of hail comes Rushing amain down. Such shall the noise be, and the wild disorder (If things eternal... | |
 | Frederic Palmer - Christian biography - 1925 - 272 pages
...various kinds of verse, and the result exhibits skill. Here he is wielding Sapphic hendecasyllables : When the fierce north wind with his airy forces Rears...Baltic to a foaming fury, And the red lightning with a storm of hail comes Rushing amain down, How the poor sailors stand amazed and tremble! While the hoarse... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - English poetry - 1927 - 496 pages
...seen, Unless when beneath the pale moon, His ghost shall glide over the green. The Day of Judgement WHEN the fierce North- wind with his airy forces Rears...Baltic to a foaming fury; And the red lightning with a storm of hail comes Rushing amain down, How the poor sailors stand amazed and tremble ! While the hoarse... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - Literary Criticism - 1949 - 802 pages
...metre appears, it has a terrifying momentum from the very first stanza : When the fierce North-wind with his airy forces Rears up the Baltic to a foaming fury; And the red lightning with a storm of hail comes Rushing amain down. . . . There could be no better example, in small space, of... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 422 pages
...everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. THE DAY OF JUDGMENT ISAAC WATTS When the fierce north wind with his airy forces Rears...Baltic to a foaming fury, And the red lightning with a storm of hail comes Rushing amain down, How the poor sailors stand amazed and tremble, While the hoarse... | |
 | Nigel Smith - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 452 pages
...in classical prosody (here sapphics), without the troping characteristic of Vaughan: When the firce north wind with his airy forces Rears up the Baltic to a foaming fury, And the red lightning with a storm of hail comes Rushing amain down, How the poor sailors stand amazed and tremble! While the hoarse... | |
 | John Churton Collins - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1896 - 502 pages
...you drive an angel from your door. w. BLAKE. CLXXXIV THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT WHEN the fierce northwind with his airy forces Rears up the Baltic to a foaming fury; And the red lightning, with a storm of hail comes How the poor sailors stand amaz'd and tremble ! While the hoarse thunder, like... | |
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And the red lightning, with a storm of hail, comes Rushing amain down, How the poor sailors stand amaz'd, and tremble ! While the hoarse thunder, like a bloody trumpet. Roars a loud onset to the gaping waters Quick to devour them. 
