Then the Master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see! she stirs! She starts, — she moves,... Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Seite 2041851Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| American Tract Society - 1868 - 172 Seiten
...a gesture of command Waved his hand ; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow,...thrill of life along her keel, And spurning with her feet the ground, With one exulting joyous bound She leaps into the ocean's arms ! And lo ! from the... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 Seiten
...a gesture of command, Waved his hand ; And at the word Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow,...she moves — she seems to feel The thrill of life against her keel, ISAnd spurning -with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1868 - 544 Seiten
...a gesture of command, Waved his hand; And at the word, Loud and sudden there wa,) heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow,...she stirs ! She starts! she moves! she seems to feel And spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 Seiten
...a gesture of command, Waved his hand ; And at the word Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow,...Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see ! she stirs I She starts — she moves — she seems to feel The thrill of life against her keel, IS* And spuming... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 252 Seiten
...All aronnd them and helow, The sonnd of hammers, hlow on hlow. Knoeking away the shores and spnrs. And see! she stirs! She starts,— she moves,— she...seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel. And. spnrning with her foot the gronnd, With one exnlting, loyons honnd, She leaps into the oeean's arms... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 Seiten
...a gesture of command, Waved his hand ; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow,...exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms ! 4. FROM ALEXANDER'S FEAST. <\Dryden. Slow Time. — Orotund Quality. — Middle Pitch, changing to... | |
| Philip Lawrence - 1870 - 422 Seiten
...the master, With a gesture of command, And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow,...Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see! she stirs 1 She starts — she moves — she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning with... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1884 - 996 Seiten
...stars-and-stripes flung to the breeze from her mizzen-peak. Carefully the old fellow launches her. " She seems to feel the thrill of life along her keel," and starts off on a wind with every stitch of canvas drawing. Firemen, machinists, and stokers" are refused... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 Seiten
...a gesture of command, Waved his hand ; And at the word, Lond and sndden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow,...assembled crowd There rose a shout, prolonged and lond, .That to the ocean seemed to say, — "Take her, 0 bridegroom, old and gray, Take her to thy... | |
| 1872 - 514 Seiten
...a gesture of command, Waved his hand ; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow,...exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms ! THE LA UNCHING OF THE SHIP. 271 And lo ! from the assembled crowd There rose a shout, prolonged and... | |
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