 The mariner remembers when a child, On his first voyage he saw it fade and sink ; And when, returning from adventures wild, He saw it rise again o'er ocean's brink. Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night Burns...  The Campaign in the Crimea: An Historical Sketch - Page 254by George Brackenbury - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Alexander McKenzie - 1897 - 330 pages
...loneliness, often in peril. They keep the lamps alight. The tribute of our own poet is not overdrawn : — " Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night Burns on forevermore that quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light ! " We have also our life-saving... | |
 | Joel Cook - 1900 - 700 pages
...Then the lighthouse was built on Boon Island, and its steady white star gleams in nightly warning : " Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after...quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light ! " A new Promethens chained upon the rock, Still grasping in his hand the fire of Jove, It does not... | |
 | Joel Cook - 1900 - 708 pages
...Then the lighthouse was built on Boon Island, and its steady white star gleams in nightly warning : " Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after...Burns on for evermore that quenchless flame, Shines on thut inextinguishable light ! "A new Promethens chained upon the rock, Still grasping in his hand the... | |
 | Joel Cook - 1900 - 642 pages
...Then the lighthouse was built on Boon Island, and its steady white star gleams in nightly warning : " Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after...through all the silent night, Burns on for evermore that qnenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light 1 * A new Prometheus chained upon the rock,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 488 pages
...Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Yearafter year, through all thesilent night, Burns on forevermore that quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable...kiss of peace ; It sees the wild winds lift it in theil grasp, And hold it up, and shake it like a fleece. The startled waves leap over it ; the storm... | |
 | Helena Swan - 1904 - 630 pages
...And found a safety for the mariner." " MICHAEL FIELD," The Tragic Mary, act IV., sc. 7 (QueenMary). Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after...silent night, Burns on for evermore that quenchless name, Shines on that inextinguishable light ! HW LONGFELLOW, By the Sea-Side : The Lighthouse, st.... | |
 | Ada Van Stone Harris, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1907 - 396 pages
...the blaze, And eager faces, as the light unveils, Gaze at the tower, and vanish while they gaze. VII Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after...quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light! * * * * VIII The sea bird wheeling round it, with the din Of wings and winds and solitary cries, Blinded... | |
 | George Thornton Edwards - 1907 - 252 pages
...it fade and sink. And when, returning from adventures wild. He saw it rise again o'er ocean's brink. Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night Burns on forevermore that quenchless flame Shines on that inextinguishable light ! " The Lighthouse" 183 It... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 294 pages
...fade and sink ; 30 And when, returning from adventures wild, He saw it rise again o'er ocean's brink. Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night Burns on forevermore that quenchless flame, 35 Shines on that inextinguishable light ! It sees the ocean to... | |
 | Ada Van Stone Harris - 1912 - 386 pages
...blaze, And eager faces, as the light unveils, Gaze at the tower and vanish while they gaze. ***** vn Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after...quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light! VIII The sea bird wheeling round it, with the din Of wings and winds and solitary cries, Blinded and... | |
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