 Up and down ! — up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The stormy petrel finds a home — A home, if such a place may be, For her who lives on the wide, wide sea...  The National Magazine - Pagina 396a cura di - 1856Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1831 - 502 pagine
...From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast. The sails are scattered abroad like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering...natural, hard, proud strength disown. Up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billows' crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The stormy... | |
 | 1831 - 496 pagine
...from billow to bounding billow cast, like fleecy snow on the stormy blast. The sails are scatter'd abroad like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering...disdains, They strain and they crack, and hearts like slum1, Their natural, hard, proud strength disown. LJp and down ! Prom the base of the wave to the... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pagine
...From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast: The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake, like quivering...From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The Stormy Petrel finds a home, — A home, if such a place may... | |
 | Bryan Waller Procter - 1832 - 270 pagine
...From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake, like quivering...From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The Stormy Petrel finds a home, — A home, if such a place may... | |
 | Gerritt Van Husen Forbes - 1833 - 32 pagine
...From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering...From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The Stormy Petrel finds a home,— A home, if such a place may... | |
 | 1834 - 222 pagine
...billow to bounding biflow cast, • . • Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake, like quivering...they crack, and hearts like stone Their natural hard protid:strength disown. Up and down ! up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown,... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 pagine
...From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering...disdains, They strain and they crack ; and hearts of stone Their natural hard proud strength disown. Up and down ! up aud down ! From the base of the... | |
 | Charles Thorold Wood - 1835 - 266 pagine
...shoots past us like an arrow, as if the guardian spirit of the ocean : the poet describes it well : — Up and down ! up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The STORMY PETREL finds a home, — A home, if such a place may... | |
 | Robert Dunn (animal-preserver, Hull.) - 1837 - 158 pagine
...From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast ; The sails are scattered abroad like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering...From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The Stormy Petrel finds a home ; A home, if such a place may... | |
 | Chronicles of the sea - 1838 - 488 pagine
...billow cast. Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast, When sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, And strong masts shake, like quivering reeds. The mighty...disdains — They strain and they crack ; and hearts of stone Their natural hard, proud strength disown. Up and down ! up and down ! From the base of the... | |
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