The Wanderer and Other PoemsWhittaker & Company, 1845 - 226 Seiten |
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art thou bark beauty Behold billows boat bold bosom Brazil breast breath breeze brigantine bright Briton bursting calm captain casca cast clime clouds cocoa creation's crew crystal water Cuma darkened dash death deck deep earth echo face faded fair fair city fearful fierce flashed float foam fond friendship's gainst Ganhadore GAWTHROP gaze glides glittering grave Guimaraes hand heart heaven heaving hope hurled kiss land light look Lord mangrove masts midst mind Montbar mortality neath night numbers o'er ocean's Oronte passing passions pirates Pompey pride proud rise roar rose round sails Scarlet Ibis scene seemed shed Shetland ship shore sigh silent slave sleep smile snow white soar soft sorrow soul sparkling spray stars storm sweep swell swept swift tempest thee thou thought throb tropic turned vessel Wanderer waters waves wild winds youth zephyr
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Seite 194 - She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers...
Seite 11 - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Seite 211 - Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not...
Seite 1 - why then publish ?' — There are no rewards, Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn — why do you play at cards ? Why drink ? Why read ? — To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or ponder'd, sad or cheery; And what I write I cast upon the stream, To swim or sink — I have had at least my dream.
Seite 1 - why then publish ? " (' ) — There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn, — Why do you play at cards? Why drink ? Why read ? — To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or...
Seite 171 - ... since that day: Nor trace, nor tidings of his doom declare Where lives his grief, or perish'd his despair! Long mourn'd his band whom none could mourn beside; And fair the monument they gave his bride: For him they raise not the .recording stone— His death yet dubious, deeds too widely known; He left a Corsair's name to other times, Link'd with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.
Seite 222 - His imagination was perpetually haunted by the shapes of multitudes of persons butchered by monsters from Spain, who called upon him to revenge them. " While on his passage outward to league himself, with the Brethren of the Coast, the inveterate enemies of Spain, the vessel in which he sailed fell in with a Spanish ship, and captured it. No sooner had the Frenchmen boarded the vessel, than...
Seite 225 - This consisted of a shirt dipped in the blood of the cattle hunted and killed ; trowsers prepared in the same rude manner; buskins without stockings, a cap with a small front, and a leathern girdle, into which were stuck knives, sabres, and pistols. The bloody garments, though attributed to design, were probably among the hunters the effect of chance and slovenliness.
Seite 223 - Hispaniola, if men following the chase in such wilds may be so harshly termed, -were natives of France. From the customs connected with their vocation in the woods, arose the formidable name of Bucanier, by which the association came to be distinguished, whether pirates or foragers, on shore or in the wilderness.
Seite 223 - Dutch named the natives of their country, employed in this lawless mode of life, Sea-rovers. Brethren of the Coast, was another general denomination for this fraternity of pirates and outlaws ; till all distinctions were finally...