 The sails are scattered abroad like weeds ; The strong masts shake, like quivering reeds ; The mighty cables and iron chains, The hull, which all earthly strength disdains, They strain, and they crack ; and hearts like stone Their natural, hard, proud...  Chronicles of the sea: or, Faithful narratives of shipwrecks, fires, famines ... - Side 128af Chronicles of the sea - 1838Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1831 - 502 sider
...bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast. The sails are scattered abroad like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering reeds, The mighty...strength disdains, They strain and they crack, and hearts like stone, Their natural, hard, proud strength disown. Up and down ! From the base of the wave to... | |
 | 1832 - 406 sider
...billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast: The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake, like quivering reeds, The mighty...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... | |
 | Bryan Waller Procter - 1832 - 270 sider
...billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake, like quivering reeds, The mighty...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... | |
 | Gerritt Van Husen Forbes - 1833 - 32 sider
...billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering reeds, The mighty...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... | |
 | 1834 - 222 sider
...cast, • . • Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake, like quivering reeds, The mighty...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... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 sider
...billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering reeds ; The mighty...natural hard proud strength disown. Up and down ! up aud down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, Amidst the flashing and feathery foam.... | |
 | Robert Dunn (animal-preserver, Hull.) - 1837 - 158 sider
...billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast ; The sails are scattered abroad like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering reeds, The mighty...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... | |
 | Saucy Jack ship - 1840 - 536 sider
...but it will be seen he was prevented. CHAPTER XIII. " The sails are scattered abroad like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering reeds, The mighty...disdains, They strain, and they crack, and hearts like stone Their natural, hard, proud strength disown." BARRY CORNWALL. THE next evening looked threatening... | |
 | Author of Charlie's discoveries - 1841 - 242 sider
...billow cast, Like fleecy clouds on the stormy blast ; The sails are scattered abroad like weeds, The strong masts shake, like quivering reeds ; The mighty...strength disdains, They strain and they crack, and hearts like stone, Their natural hard, proud strength disown. Up and down I up and down ! From the base of... | |
 | Francis Allyn Olmsted - 1841 - 400 sider
...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 home, if such a place may be For her who lives on... | |
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