| 1886 - 552 pages
...Oft ш the rough, opposing blast they fly Far back, then turn, aud all their force apply, ЛУЫ1е to the storm they give their weak, complaining cry;...the breast, And in the restless ocean dip for rest. 174 175 THE MIDGES DANCE ABOON THE BURN. '•ITE midges dance aboon the bum; The dews begin to fa":... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 pages
...forth. Inshore thtir passage tribes of sea-gulls urge, And drop for prey within the sweeping surge ; Oft in the rough, opposing blast they fly Far back,...the breast, And in the restless ocean dip for rest. GEORGE Склввк. A LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE. LIFE on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep ;... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1887 - 390 pages
...forth. In-shore their passage tribes of Sea-gulls urge, And drop for prey within the sweeping surge ; Oft in the rough opposing blast they fly Far back,...weak complaining cry ; Or clap the sleek white pinion on the breast, And in the restless ocean dip for rest. GEORGE CRABBE. [From The Beacon, Act ii., Scene... | |
| George Crabbe - 1888 - 294 pages
...forth. In-shore their passage tribes of sea-gulls urge, And drop for prey within the sweeping surge ; Oft in the rough opposing blast they fly Far back,...weak complaining cry; Or clap the sleek white pinion on the breast, And in the restless ocean dip for rest. Darkness begins to reign ; the louder wind Appals... | |
| James Glass Bertram - 1889 - 414 pages
...And drop for prey within the sweeping surge ; Oft in the rough opposing blast they fly Far back, and then turn and all their force apply, While to the...the breast, And in the restless ocean dip for rest." "These birds are ill to shoot Ellangowan," said Captain McGaw to me one day as the lona was entering... | |
| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1904 - 376 pages
...last. In shore, theii passage tribes of sea-gulls urge, And drop for prey within the sweeping surge, Oft in the rough opposing blast they fly Far back,...weak complaining cry, Or clap the sleek white pinion on the breast, And in the restless ocean dip for rest." Fashions of poets and of poetry may go by,... | |
| 1889 - 784 pages
...the sea-gulls that drop for prey into the surge, face round with rallying cry against the blast, " Or clap the sleek white pinion to the breast, And in the restless ocean dip for rest." Thus viewed as a Painter of Man and of Nature, Crabbe, in his relation to those who preceded and those... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 pages
...forth. In-shore their passage tribes of sea-gulls urge, And drop for prey within the sweeping surge ; Oft in the rough opposing blast they fly Far back,...While to the storm they give their weak complaining ciy. Or clap the sleek white pinion on the breast, And in the restless ocean dip for rest. Darkness... | |
| George Crabbe - 1899 - 492 pages
...forth. In-shore their passage tribes of Sea-gulls urge, And drop for prey within the sweeping surge ; Oft in the rough opposing blast they fly Far back,...to the storm they give their weak complaining cry; Darkness begins to reign ; the louder wind Appals the weak and awes the firmer mind ; But frights not... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 pages
...forth. In-shore their passage tribes of sea-gulls urge, And drop for prey within the sweeping surge ; Oft in the rough opposing blast they fly Far back,...complaining cry ,: Or clap the sleek white pinion on the breast, And in the restless ocean dip for rest. Darkness begins to reign ; the louder wind Appals... | |
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