 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 Female Poets of America - Seite 329von Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1853 - 400 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1883 - 662 Seiten
...Wexford Bay. JOHN BOYLE O'REtLLY. TW1LlGHT AT SEA : A FRAGMENT. twilight hours like birds flew by, JL As lightly and as free : Ten thousand stars were in...star in its embrace, And held it trembling there. AMELtA B. WELBY. THE BEACON-LlGHT. DARKNESS was deepening o'er the seas, And still the hulk drove on,... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 Seiten
...you gave her a smile. And trembled with fear at your frown ! Ben Bolt. AMELIA B. WELBY. 1821-1852. For every wave with dimpled face, That leaped upon...star in its embrace. And held it trembling there. Musings. Stanza 4. EDWIX RANSFORD. In the days when we went g3'psying A long time ago ; The lads and... | |
 | Lucius Seth Huntington - 1884 - 316 Seiten
...there was only a gentle motion of the waters, and ' Every wave with dimpled face, That leaped up in the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there.' There was silence in the haunts of the passengers, and the great ship moved majestically all the long... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 1885 - 320 Seiten
...figure, under such circumstances. I will give one other example : " The twilight hours like hlrda flow by, As lightly and as free ; Ten thousand stars were In the sky. Tun thousand In the sea ; For every wave with dimpledcheek Tltat leaped vjiim the air. Had caught a... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1894 - 782 Seiten
...colder it grows." 31. Analyze, "All thst thou canst call thine own Lies in thy to-day." 32. Analyze, "The twilight hours like birds flew by, As lightly and as free." 33. Analyze, "The people are like the sea and orators are like the wind." №: SCIENTIFIC Literary... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 Seiten
...Then is heard no more, By the watch on shore, ' The minute-gun at sea. RS SHARPE. TWILIGHT AT SEA. 'HE twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly and...star in its embrace, And held it trembling there. AMELIA B. WKLBY. OCEAN. REAT Ocean ! strongest of creation's sons. Unconquerable, unreposed, untlred,... | |
 | Jerome Allen - 1887 - 166 Seiten
...most of what Washington Irving and Fenimore Cooper have written. " Every wave, with dimpled cheek, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there 1" " I have heard the laughing wind behind, When playing with my hair — The breezy fingers of the... | |
 | Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 Seiten
...the secret learned . To mix his blood with sunshine, and to take The winds into his pulses. Lowell The twilight hours like birds flew by, As lightly...free. 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,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 Seiten
...DIBD In Louisville, Ky., 1852. TWILIGHT AT SEA. [Poems. By Amelia. IMQ.—Tieelfth Edition. 1854.] THE twilight hours like birds flew by, As lightly...star in its embrace, And held it trembling there. liiciwra falter ^tort% BORN in Braintree, Mass., 1821. THE SCHOLAR'S COURAGE. \ilanlines* in the Scholar.... | |
 | Edwin Crawford Hewett - 1889 - 204 Seiten
...devoid of all imagination. For this purpose, Dr. Haven chooses the following lines from Mrs. Welby: " The twilight hours like birds flew by. As lightly...; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand in the sea; For every wave with dimpled cheek, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace,... | |
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