Pen and pencil sketches of Faröe and Iceland. With an appendix containing translations from the Icelandic1862 - 315 ページ |
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Althing appeared Arcturus basaltic basin beautiful Biarni blue boat boiling called chasm chiefly church clouds coast colour Copenhagen covered crater Danish dark deck deep distance earthquakes English eruption Fair Isle farm Faröe Faroe Islands Faröese feet fiord fire fish French Geyser green Greenland Haycock height Heimskringla Hekla Hildur hills horses Iceland inhabitants island Jökul Kötlugjá lake land lava light Lögberg looking Mackinlay miles morning mountains night north-west Norway numerous o'clock P.M. Odin Old Nick old Norse plain ponies Professor Chadbourne pumice resembling Reykjanes Reykjavik ride rising river rocks roof round running Sæmund sail seen Seydisfiord sheep Shetland ship shore side sketch skua slope smoke Snæfell snow specimens steam steamer stones Strokr syssel Thingvalla Thorshavn thou told turf valley volcanic Westmanna whole wild wind winter Zöga
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36 ページ - Soon shalt thou find a summer home and rest, And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
70 ページ - If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze, By the sweet power of music...
128 ページ - Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: And thou renewest the face of the earth.
9 ページ - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness ? Think of it: The very place puts toys of desperation, Without more motive, into every brain That looks so many fathoms to the sea And hears it roar beneath.
130 ページ - The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,— This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
6 ページ - And they trimmed the lamps as the sun went down They looked at the squall, and they looked at the shower, And the night-rack came rolling up ragged and brown. But men must work, and women must weep, Though storms be sudden, and waters deep, And the harbour bar be moaning.
36 ページ - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
191 ページ - Fires from beneath, and meteors from above, Portentous, unexampled, unexplained, Have kindled beacons in the skies ; and the old And crazy Earth has had her shaking fits More frequent, and foregone her usual rest.
196 ページ - A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind, that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world. Then murmur'd Arthur, " Place me in the barge,
128 ページ - Who can stand before His indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by Him.