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 | Emily Taylor - 1868 - 330 pages
...certain date ; And thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, refrain thyself, and wait. QUA CURSUM VENTUS. As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay, With canvas drooping,...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... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 542 pages
...vain, Except that rule that none complain ? 0 tell me, friends that are no more ! QUA CURSUM VENTUS. As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping,...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 - 1869 - 518 pages
...vain, Except that rule that none complain ? 0 tell me, friends that are no more ! QUA CURSUM VENTUS. As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping,...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 - 1869 - 520 pages
...vain, Except that rule that none complain ? O tell me, friends that are no more ! QUA CVRSUM VENTUS. As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping,...dawn of day Are scarce long leagues apart descried ; \\Tien fell the night, upsprung the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied, Nor dreamt but... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1869 - 900 pages
...friend and master, Keble, from whom he parted so sadly when Faith assigned them diverging paths — "As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of wail at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried." The gentle strain of the organ steals... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...Virginia's hills and waters, — Woe is me, my stolen daughters ! JOHN GKEENLEAF WHITTIER. PARTING. toe on the misty mountain tops. I must be gone and live, or stay and die. JULIET. up sprang the breeze, And all the darkling houi-s they plied ; Nor dreamt but each the selfsame seas... | |
 | English poetry - 1871 - 476 pages
...I yielded myself to the perfect whole. RALPH W. EMERSON. QUA CURSUM VENTUS. 219 Qua Cursum Ventus. AS ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping,...long leagues apart descried ; When fell the night unsprung the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied ; Nor dreamt but each the self-same seas... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - English poetry - 1871 - 484 pages
...towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce long leagues apart descried ; When fell the night unsprung the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied...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,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...blame, for neither willed, With canvas drooping, side by side, Or wist, what first with dawn appeared I Two towers of sail at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried ; To veer, how vain ! On, onward strain, Brave barks ! In light, in darkness too, When fell( he nigh(,... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 pages
...burned, The thoughts that burned and glowed within. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. QUA CURSUM VENTUS. AS ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping,...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... | |
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