 The ships unmoved the boist'rous winds defy, While rattling chariots o'er the ocean fly. The vast leviathan wants room to play, And spout his waters in the face of day; The starving wolves along the main sea prowl, And to the moon in icy valleys howl....  The British Essayists - Side 93redigeret af - 1808Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Bell - 1799 - 436 sider
.... ,,' The starving wolves along the main sea prowl, And to the moon in icy vallies howl. Oer many-a shining league the level main . . ; Here spreads itself into a glassy plain ; .to There solid hillows of enormous size, . , Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise. . . . And... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 472 sider
...face of day. The starving wolves along the main sea prowl, And to the moon in icy valleys howl. O'er many a shining league the level main Here spreads...wild disorder rise. And yet but lately have I seen, even here, The winter in a lovely dress appear. Ere yet the clouds let fall the treasured snow, Or... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 sider
...room to play, And spout his waters in the face of day. The starving wolves along the main sea prowl, And to the moon in icy valleys howl. For many a shining...a glassy plain : There solid billows, of enormous siae, Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise. And yet but lately have I seen, e'en here, The winter... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sider
...room to play, And spout his waters in the face of day. The starving wolves along the main sea prowl, times virtue starves while vice is •• tjnssy plain : There solid billows, of enormous size, Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise, And... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 sider
...face of day. The starving wolves along the main sea prowl, And to the Moon in icy valleys howl. O'er many a shining league the level main Here spreads...Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise. And yet hut lately have I seen, cv'n here, The »inter in a lovely dress appear. Ere yet the clouds let fall... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 sider
...face of day. The starving wolves along the main sea prowl, And to the Moon in icy valleys howL O'er many a shining league the level main Here spreads itself into a glassy plain: 118 PHILIFS'S POEMS. There solid hillows of enormous size, Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise.... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 sider
...main sea prowl. And to the moon in icy valleys howl 5 O'er many a shining league the level main, Mere spreads itself into a glassy plain; There solid billows...enormous size,. Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise: Aurl yet but lately have I seen, e'en here T?.e winter in a lovely dress appear, Kre yet the clouds... | |
 | Joshua Marsden - 1816 - 324 sider
...floods, By snow disguis'd in bright confusion lie, And with a daz'ling waste fatigue the eye. O'er many a shining league the level main Here spreads...enormous size Alps of green ice in wild disorder rise. But to compensate the dreariness of the scene, I found a people hungering and thirsting for the bread... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 sider
...room to play, And spoilt his waters in the face of day; The starving wolves along the main sea prowl, And to the moon in icy valleys howl. For many a shining...wild disorder rise. And yet but lately have I seen, cv'n here, The winter in a lovely dress appear. Ere yet the clouds let fall the treasur'd snow, Or... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 sider
...face of day. The starving wolves along the main sea prowl, And to the moon in icy valleys howl. O'er many a shining league the level main Here spreads...enormous size, Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise. At evening a keen eastern breeze arose, And the descending rain unsullied froze. Soon as the silent... | |
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