 The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly and as free ; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea ; For every wave with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there.  The Williams Quarterly - Seite 2921857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | National Education Association of the United States. Meeting - 1914 - 944 Seiten
...thousand stars were in the sky Ten thousand in the sea. For every wave with dimpled cheek That leaped into the air Had caught a star in its embrace And held it trembling there. Can the beauty of this stanza be questioned in comparison with the plain statement that it was nearly... | |
 | Jasper Newton Hunt - 1916 - 184 Seiten
...GEM " Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand in the sea ; For every wave with dimpled face That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there." — WELBT. brief priest veil re ceive' grief shield sieve mis' chief neigh weigh de ceive' con ceit'... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - 1919 - 330 Seiten
...free, Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea ; For every wave, with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace And held it trembling there. ROMANCE GABRIEL SETOUN Here is another song of " Shut-Eye Town," somewhat like " Wynken, Blynken and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 Seiten
...free, Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea ; For every wave, with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there. AMELIA B. WELBY. OCEAN. VROM "THE COURSE OH TIME," BOOK I. GREAT Ocean ! strongest of creation's sons,... | |
 | Grace Gaige - 1928 - 184 Seiten
...free; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea ; For every wave with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there. Amelia Coppuck Welby FRESH BREEZE— ROUGH SEA— FINE Suddenly into my eyes a smoke Of rainbows when... | |
 | Joshua Slocum - 1985 - 474 Seiten
...free, Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea. "For every rippling, dancing wave, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there." "The days pass, and our ship flies fast upon her way." For several days while sailing near the line... | |
 | Helen Whybrow - 2003 - 588 Seiten
...free, Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea. For every rippling, dancing wave, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there. "The days pass, and our ship flies fast upon her way." For several days while sailing near the line... | |
 | Helen Whybrow - 2005 - 580 Seiten
...free. Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea. For every rippling, dancing wave, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there. "The days pass, and our ship flies fast upon her way." For several days while sailing near the line... | |
 | Isabella Bird, Isabella Lucy Bird - 2005 - 361 Seiten
...stars were its the sky, Ten thousand in the sea, And every wave with dimpled face, That leapt apon the air. Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there." The loneliness of Usu Bay is something wonderful — a house full of empty rooms falling to decay,... | |
 | Paul Ansel Chadbourne - 1858 - 112 Seiten
...delighted eye. On the east side the Green Mountains, in a continuous range, stretch along the horizon. Ou the west are the Adirondacs rising peak above peak,...just such an evening, the gallant little fleet of McDonough was moored in a line from that head-land to yon island, awaiting the carnage of the morrow... | |
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