 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...spray. How gloriously her gallant coarse she goes! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — Heaven's realm holds no such tide. CLI. The starry battle-fire — the wreck — Те move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV. Hoar« o'er her side... | |
 | 1837 - 418 pages
...she goes ; Her white wings flying — never from her foes — 328 FLOWERS OF FICTION. 329 She walke the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck?" " Well, Mr. Lovett, since you... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1838 - 508 pages
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying—never from her foes— She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems...dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire—the wreck— To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? Hoarse o'er her side the rustling... | |
 | 1838 - 506 pages
...Receives that prow which proudly spurns the spray. Her white wings flying—never from her foes— She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems...dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire—the wreck— To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? Hoarse o'er her side the rustling... | |
 | 1839 - 384 pages
...BARK. How gloriously her gallant coarse she goes \ Her white wings flying never from her foes ; — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. — BYRON. Bright and beauteous, fearless and free, Speeds on my gallant bark, On stormy winds, o'er... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1855 - 528 pages
...from that mine of poetic imagination, the mind of Byron, describes the vessel's course by saying — " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to drive the elements to strife," though it could be still quoted as even more applicable where steam... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pages
...adieu to my friends, (at Baltimore,) as we stepped on board a Norfolk steamer. " She walks the water like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." Soon we were leaving the city, with her Eroud monuments, her towers and spires, ouses and shipping... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 362 pages
...old Grecian to evaporate in the process. We would compare the original to a gallant vessel, that " Walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife ;" Cowper's translation, to the same vessel, just about to depart from port, with all her rigging perfect... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...Her white wings flying — never from her foes — • She walks the waters like a thing of life, I \ sects and systems, to whom add Sophists, bards, statesmen, all u battle-fire — the wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? Yet thus «íncere — Ч is... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goe» ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — urels on the bald first Caesar's head ; з When the...shines serene but doth not glare, Then in this mag battle-fire — the wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck 1 IV. Hoarse o'er her side the... | |
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How gloriously her gallant course she goes! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. 
