 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 Seiten
...plaids, draw your blades, Forward each man set! Pibroch of Donuil Dhu Knell for the onset! Sir W. Scott A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast...mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While like the eagle free Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 346 Seiten
...and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast ; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. " 0 fois%-S5§; and gentle wind ! " I heawl'a fair one cry ; But give to me the roaring breeze, And... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 Seiten
...work was a " Life of Sir David Wilkie." He died 29th October 1842. A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA. A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast,...; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 Seiten
...sweeter to be loved again. A llan Cunningham. Born 1784. Died 1842. A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA. A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast,...; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lea. O for a soft and gentle... | |
 | 1862 - 538 Seiten
...with hilarious readiness, and — " With a wet sheet and a flowing sea, And a wind that follows fast ; Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee." This last line, by the way, is a puzzler, since how, with a wind that follmes fast, a ship, good or... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 Seiten
...preventing ; — The waters wild went o'er his child, And he was left lamenting. CAMPBELL. L SEA SONG. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast,...; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. 132 THE WRECK. " O for... | |
 | 1863 - 150 Seiten
...rocky breast As souls in a heavenly power that rest, .. Doth the sea bird find repose. % Met j?|eet. A wet sheet, and a flowing sea, A wind that follows...; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While like the eagle, free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lea. O for a soft and gentle... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 216 Seiten
...manner, better than all the threatenings of blustering authority. A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA I. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast,...; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. ' Oh, for a soft and gentle... | |
 | Charles Dibdin - 1863 - 366 Seiten
...your trowsers I'll wash, and your grog too I'll make. A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA. AM.** CUNNINGHAM. WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast,...and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast. And benda the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 Seiten
...cheer,— 1'arewell, my love, for to thy bay I never more may steer." W. Allinghaiti. THE SAILOR'S SONG. A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, While like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves And bends the gallant mast;— And... | |
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A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O... 
