| Bryan Waller Procter - 1832 - 270 Seiten
...chains, The hull, which all earthly strength disdains, They strain and they crack, and hearts like stone Their natural hard proud strength disown. Up and down ! Up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The Stormy Petrel finds a home, — A... | |
| 1832 - 406 Seiten
...chains, The hull, which all earthly strength disdains, They strain and they crack, and hearts like stone Their natural hard proud strength disown Up and down ! up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The Stormy Petrel finds a home, — A... | |
| Gerritt Van Husen Forbes - 1833 - 32 Seiten
...chains, The hull, which all earthly strength disdains, They strain and they crack, and hearts like stone Their natural hard proud strength disown. Up and down ! up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The Stormy Petrel finds a home,— A... | |
| 1834 - 222 Seiten
...strength disdains, They strain and they crack, and hearts like stone Their natural hard protid:strength disown. Up and down ! up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The Stormy Petrel finds a home, — A... | |
| Charles Thorold Wood - 1835 - 266 Seiten
...shoots past us like an arrow, as if the guardian spirit of the ocean : the poet describes it well : — Up and down ! up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The STORMY PETREL finds a home, — A... | |
| Robert Dunn (animal-preserver, Hull.) - 1837 - 158 Seiten
...chains, The hull, which all earthly strength disdains, They strain and they crack, and hearts like stone Their natural hard proud strength disown. Up and down, up and down, From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The Stormy Petrel finds a home ; A home,... | |
| Chronicles of the sea - 1838 - 488 Seiten
...The hull, which all earthly strength disdains — They strain and they crack ; and hearts of stone Their natural hard, proud strength disown. Up and down ! up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown ; And amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The Stormy Petrel finds a home —... | |
| 1872 - 516 Seiten
...about on the roaring sea. Prom billow to bounding billow cast Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast. Up and down, up and down From the base of the wave to the billows' crown. Yet amid the flashing and feathery foam The stormy petrel finds a home, A home... | |
| Francis Allyn Olmsted - 1841 - 400 Seiten
...offender to dire misfortune. The petrel, therefore, was held sacred in the creed of the prudent voyager. " Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the flashing and leathery foam The Stormy Petrel finds a home,— A... | |
| 1842 - 294 Seiten
...The hull, which all earthly strength disdains, They strain, and they crack, and hearts like stone, Their natural hard, proud strength disown. Up and down ! up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And, amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The Stormy Petrel finds a home ; —... | |
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