 | William Reed - 1888 - 102 pages
...poesy, silverwinged, sings amid the mystic beauty of a moonlit night at sea : — ' Night on the waves I and the moon is on high, Hung like a gem on the brow...And turning the clouds, as they pass her, to light.' The ' Mawhera ' of the Union Company's Line is a trim little boat, and we are sorry to learn that we... | |
 | 1889 - 602 pages
...sunshine on high — Pauses to think, amid glitter and glow, O, there be hearts that are breaking below ? Night on the waves ! and the moon is on high, Hung,...And turning the clouds, as they pass her, to light ! Look to the waters ! — asleep on their breast, Seems not the ship like an island of rest ? Bright... | |
 | 1889 - 522 pages
...glow, O, there be hearts that are breaking below? Night on the waves ! and the moon is on high, Hunp, like a gem, on the brow of the sky ; Treading its...And turning the clouds, as they pass her, to light ! Look to the waters ! — asleep on their breast, Seems not the ship like an island of rest ? Bright... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 582 pages
...sunshine on high— Pauses to think, amid glitter and glow, Oh ! there be hearts that are breaking below ! Night on the waves !—and the moon is on high, Hung...And turning the clouds, as they pass her, to light ! Look to the waters !—asleep on their breast, Seems not the ship like an island of rest ? Bright... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 768 pages
...sunshine on high, Pauses to think, amid glitter and glow, Oh ! there be hearts- that are breaking below! Night on the waves ! and the moon is on high, Hung like a gem-on the brow of the sky, Treading its deaths in the power of her might, And turning the clouds,... | |
 | John Edward Patterson - 1913 - 452 pages
...sunshine on high—. Pauses to think, amid glitter and glow, Oh, there be hearts that are breaking below ! Night on the waves ! And the moon is on high, Hung...And turning the clouds, as they pass her, to light: Look to the waters !—asleep on their breast, Seems not the ship like an island of rest? Bright and... | |
 | Arthur Barry O'Neill - 1918 - 316 pages
...eastern waters ! What a sense of incomparable beauty captivates and enthralls one's being when ". . . the moon is on high, Hung like a gem on the brow of the sky," and the raptured gaze wanders from the myriad star-jets that flash their radiance athwart the azure... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 848 pages
...sunshine on high — Pauses to think amid glitter and glow, Oh, there be hearts that are breaking below ! ntle little flower Look fairest in the silver beam,...scattered far And wide its loveliness. She made a sign ! Look to the waters ! — Asleep on their breast, Seems not the ship like an island of rest ? Bright... | |
 | 1879 - 484 pages
...on high — Pauses to think , amid glitter and show , Oh! there be hearts 'that are breaking below! Night on the waves! — and the moon is on high, Hung like a gem on the brow of the sky , Treading in depths, in the power of her might, And turning the clouds as they pass her to light! Look to the... | |
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Night on the waves ! — and the moon is on high, Hung like a gem on the brow of the sky, Treading its depths in the power of her might, And turning the clouds, as they pass her, to light... 
