 | Frances Talbot Parker Countess of Morley - 1835 - 388 pages
...mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed Flung from the rock on ocean's foam to sail 'Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempests breath prevail. BTBOX. THE eve of Dacre's departure was come, and the duchess invited him... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...as a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, k Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. in. In my youth's summer I did sing of One, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind Again I seize... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must 1 on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam,...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. (1) Some years afterwards. Lord Byron wrote upon a proof-sheet of Marino Fatiero, "Ada, all but the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 352 pages
...mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, 2 Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam...to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's hreath prevail. in. In my youth's summer I did sing of One, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind... | |
 | George Home - 1837 - 364 pages
...mast should quiver like a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale ; Still must I on, for I am as a weed Flung from the rock, on ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest breath prevail." The sublime is remarkably fine, if it would always last ; but there is a confounded... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...reed, Aöd the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must 1 on ; for I am as a weed, Floag s, that all survey? Eternal, boundless, undecay'd, A thought u «weep, the tempest's breath prerafl. CO Some vean afterwards, Lord Byron wrote upon a pW-ibeet of... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...hospes. These words of Horace cannot be better translated, than by those of Byron— Still must I on; for I am as a weed Flung from the rock, on ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, or tempest force prevail. 208. The man, who to the end of a long life, has never by intoxication or... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1839 - 524 pages
...rider. Weleome to their roar ! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Still must I on ; for I am as a weed Flung from the rock, on ocean's foam,...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." BYROK. " EIGHT bells ! — Twelbe o'clock ! — I say, you nig — dem — you intenshun to clean boots... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed Flung from the rock on ocean's foam...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail t N 2 The harmony of this splendid Spensercan stanza, (a form of verse which Shelley considered inexpressibly... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 pages
...strained mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on; for I am as a weed Flung from the rock on ocean's foam...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail I N 2 The harmony of this splendid Spenserean stanza, (a form of verse which Shelley considered inexpressibly... | |
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Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed. 
