 No STIR in the air, no stir in the sea: The ship was still as she could be; Her sails from heaven received no motion; Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock; So little they...  Selected Poems of Robert Southey - Page 280by Robert Southey - 1888 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Maitland - 1868 - 334 pages
...lines of light reflected from the water. So entire is the calm that the sails have ceased to flap. ' No stir in the air ; no stir in the sea ; The ship is still as it can be : Her sails from heaven receive no motion ; All things are silent on the ocean.'... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1870 - 336 pages
...Southey embodies with much picturesque effect in his well-known ballad of " Sir Ralph the Rover" : — " No stir In the air, no stir in the sea, The ship was...steady in the ocean. " Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock ; So little they rose, so little they fell,... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1870 - 156 pages
...lies, And tells to man his glorious destinies. JOHN WILSON, BORN 1788, DIED 1854. THE INCHCAPE ROCK. No stir in the air, no stir in the sea, The ship was as still as she could be ; Her sails from heaven received no motion, Her keel was steady in the ocean.... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 420 pages
...When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow. Bx. 152. The Inchcape Rock. No stir in the air, no stir in the sea, The ship was as still as she could be, Her sails from heaven received no motion, Her keel was steady in the ocean.... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1870 - 152 pages
...And tells to man his glorious destinies. JOHN WILSON, BORN 1788, DIED 1854. F 2 THE INCHCAPE ROCK. No stir in the air, no stir in the sea, The ship was as still as she could be ; Her sails from heaven received no motion, Her keel was steady in the ocean.... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...Peterkin. — " Why that l cannot tell," said he : " But 'twas a fatuous victory." THE INCHCAPE BELL. .XT O stir in the air, no stir in the sea, •*• ^ The ship was as still as she could be, Her sails from heaven received no motion, Her keel was steady in the ocean.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...foremast, She rights ! she rights, boys '. we 're otf ;.hore. GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS. THE INCHCAPE ROCK. might be ; Her sails from heaven received no motion ; Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...watchful night, For all her sorrows, all her tears, An over-payment of delight ? THE INCHCAPE ROCK. No stir in the air, no stir in the sea, The ship was still as she might be ; Her sails from heaven received no motion — Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 164 pages
...bounds plague bother Keel.. .undermost part of a ship surge the swell of the sea scoured crossed rapidly No stir in the air, no stir in the sea, The ship was as still as she could be ; Her sails from heaven received no motion, Her keel as steady in the ocean.... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 pages
...Crucified, Ah I not in vain, dear birdie, Our little Johnnie died I The Inchcape Eock No atir in the air, DO stir in the sea, The ship was still as she could be;...steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock; So little they rose, so little they fell,... | |
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