 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
 | Charles Wilkins - Wales - 1885 - 786 pages
...induced by his own personal experiences, is not uncommon in Clough's writings : — As ships, becMmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side,...long leagues apart descried ; When fell the night, up sprung the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied, Xor dreamt but each the self-same seas... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...before It l»ad what e'en to memory now Returns no more, no more. BECALMED AT EVE. As ships, beoiilmed at eve. that lay With canvas drooping, side by side....long leagues apart descried; When fell the night, upspruug the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied; N'or dreamt but each the self-same seas... | |
 | Frederic Jesup Stimson - American fiction - 1882 - 464 pages
...instructing the attendant and the three medical students in the mysteries of unlimited loo. CHAPTER XXVII. V As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas 'drooping,...dawn of day Are scarce long leagues apart descried." — CLOUGH. WHEN the sun rose, one September morning, and peered over a ridge of the Cordillera de... | |
 | Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1882 - 1882 - 276 pages
...or speed appears. Side by side they sink below the horizon. But — "When fell the night up sprung the breeze And all the darkling hours they plied,...self-same seas By each was cleaving side by side." Slowly, imperceptibly, their paths from day to day diverge, and when the one is beating up the Irish... | |
 | 1883 - 410 pages
...Culled amid the Graces' bowers. J. ANSTICE, from ARISTOPHANES, Av. 1058. June 2. 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... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 498 pages
...or shall we not, a shore That is, as is not ship or ocean foam, Indeed our home? 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...pipe too sore, and tired his throat.' EDITOR. 1 Westminster Review, October 1869. 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 - 1883 - 368 pages
...vain, Except that rule that none complain ? 0 tell me, friends that are no more ! Qwi, 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1883 - 734 pages
...pipe too sore, and tired his throat.' EDITOR. 1 Westminster Review, October 1 869. 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... | |
 | 1883 - 528 pages
...TH WARD: The English Poets, 1880. The motto of this poem is taken from Virgil's ^Eneid, iii. 209.] As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping,...darkling hours they plied, Nor dreamt but each the self -same seas By each was cleaving, side by side : E'en so — but why the tale reveal Of those,... | |
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