 Yet prudence tarried, but when last he went, He drew from pitying love a full consent. Happy he sail'd, and great the care she took, That he should softly sleep, and smartly look; White was his better linen, and his check Was made more trim than any on...  The Borough: A Poem, in Twenty-four Letters - Page 24by George Crabbe - 1810 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1866 - 180 pages
...every comfort men at sea can know Was hers to buy, to make, and to bestow : For he to Greenland sailed, and much she told How he should guard against the climate's cold, Yet saw not danger; dangers he'd withstood, Nor could she trace the fever in his blood : His messmates smiled at flushings on his... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...Happy he sail'd, and great the care she took ; That he should softly sleep and smartly look ; White was his better linen, and his check Was made more...the deck ; And every comfort men at sea can know Was hers to buy, to make, and to bestow ; CltABBE. For he to Greenland suil'd, and much she told How he... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...Happy he sail'd, and great the care she took, That he should softly sleep, and smartly look ; White was his better linen, and his check Was made more...deck ; And every comfort men at sea can know, Was hers to buy, to make, and to bestow : For he to Greenland sail'd, and much she told, How he should... | |
 | 1870 - 624 pages
...Happy he sailed, and great the care she took, That he should softly sleep, and smartly look; White was his better linen, and his check Was made more...deck ; And every comfort men at sea can know, Was hers to buy, to make, and to bestow : For he to Greenland sailed, and much she told, How he should... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...Happy he sail'd, and great the care she took, That he should softly sleep, and smartly look ; White was his better linen, and his check Was made more...deck ; And every comfort men at sea can know, Was hers to buy, to make, and to bestow : For he to Greenland sail'd, and much she told, How he should... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...she took That he should softly sleep, and smartly look : White was his better linen, and his cheek Was made more trim than any on the deck; And every comfort men at sea can know Was hers to buy, to make, and to bestow: For he to Greenland sail'd, and much she told, How he should guard... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...Happy he sailed, and great the care she took, That he should softly sleep and smartly look ; White _$ hers to buy, to make, and to bestow : For he to Greenland sailed, and much she told, How he should... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...she took, That he should softly sleep and smartly look ; White was his better linen, and his cheek el shone hers to buy, to make, and to bestow : For he to Greenland sailed, and much she told, How he should... | |
 | William Schofield Binns - 1872 - 130 pages
...great the care she took That he should softly sleep, and smartly look ; For he to Greenland sailed, and much she told How he should guard against the climate's cold. 15. The opinion, that he was not so bad as his enemies paint him, is daily gaining ground. 16. It is... | |
 | English song - 1873 - 566 pages
...Happy he sailed, and great the care she took That he should softly sleep and smartly look ; S White was his better linen, and his check Was made more...the deck ; And every comfort men at sea can know Was hers to buy, to make, and to bestow ! For he to Greenland sailed, and much she told How he should guard... | |
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