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" The rising mist of day. Hark ! hark ! I hear yon whistling shroud, I see yon quivering mast ; The black throat of the hunted cloud Is panting forth the blast ! An hour, and, whirled like winnowing chaff, The giant surge shall fling His tresses o'er yon... "
American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 208
1839
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The American Speaker: Being a Collection of Pieces in Prose, Poetry, and ...

Charles Northend - Orators - 1856 - 276 pages
...winnowing chaff. The giant surge shall fling His tresses o'er yon pennon-stafT, White as the sea bird's wing ! Yet rest, ye wanderers of the deep ! Nor wind...floods of living fire ; Sleep on — and when the morning's light Streams o'er the shining.bay, Oh, think of those for whom the night Shall never wake...
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The Poets and Poetry of America

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1856 - 696 pages
...whirl'd like winnowing chalí. The giant surge shall fling Hie tresses o'er yon pennon-staff, White as the sea-bird's wing ! Yet rest, ye wanderers of the deep ; Nor wind nor wave shall tire Thoee fleahless arms, whose pulses leap With floods of living fire ; Bleep on—and when the morning...
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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic, Volume 5

Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 pages
...whirl'd like winnowing chaff, The giant surge shall fling His tresses o'er yon pennon staff, White as the sea-bird's wing! Yet rest, ye wanderers of...whose pulses leap With floods of living fire ; Sleep on,—and, when the morning light Streams o'er the shining bay, O think of those for whom the night...
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Poems

Oliver Wendell Holmes - American poetry - 1859 - 326 pages
...whirled like winnowing chaff, The giant surge shall fling His tresses o'er yon pennon staff, White as the sea-bird's wing! Yet rest, ye wanderers of...whose pulses leap With floods of living fire ; Sleep on,—and, when the morning light Streams o'er the shining bay, O think of those for whom the night...
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 838 pages
...sea-bird's wing I Yet rest, ye wanderers of the do«p! Nor wind nor wave shall tire Those ;u -bless arms, whose pulses leap With floods of living fire...when the morning light Streams o'er the shining bay, 0, think of those for whom the night Shall never wake in day ! OLITO WECBIU. Ilouw THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH....
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Poems

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 304 pages
...whirled like winnowing chalf, The giant surge shall fling His tresses o'er yon pennon staff, White as the sea-bird's wing ! Yet rest, ye wanderers of...when the morning light Streams o'er the shining bay, O think of those for whom the night Shall never wake in day ! THE PARTING WORD. I MUST leave thee,...
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The first (-sixth) 'Standard' reader, Volume 6

James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 pages
...chaff, The giant surge shall fling His tresses o'er yon pennon staff, White as the sea-bird's wing! Tet rest, ye wanderers of the deep: Nor wind nor wave shall tire Those fleshlesa arms, whose pulses leap With floods of living fire; Sleep on,—and, when the morning light...
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The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes - American poetry - 1864 - 440 pages
...whirled like winnowing chaff, The giant surge shall fling His tresses o'er yon pennon staff, White as the sea-bird's wing ! Yet rest, ye wanderers of...Those fleshless arms, whose pulses leap With floods of li ving fire ; Sleep on, — and, when the morning light Streams o'er the shining bay, O think of those...
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Ocean lays; or, The sea, the ship, and the sailor, poems ..., Volume 113

Ocean lays - 1864 - 400 pages
...chaff, The giant surge shall fling His tresses o'er yon pennon staff, White as the sea-bird's wing ! Those fleshless arms, whose pulses leap With floods...when the morning light Streams o'er the shining bay, 0 think of those for whom the night Shall never wake in day ! OHVEE W. HOLMES. ADDRESS TO A STEAMBOAT....
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Curtis's Junior Reader

John Charles Curtis - Readers - 1869 - 150 pages
...whirled like winnowing chaff, The giant surge shall fling His tresses o'er yon pennon-staff, White as the sea-bird's wing! Yet rest, ye wanderers of...whose pulses leap With floods of living fire; Sleep on—and when the morning light Streams o'er the shining bay, Oh ! think of those for whom the nigh*...
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