| 1844 - 402 ページ
...nearer, she breasts the storm and current, flinging the white-caps from her prow as she approaches : " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife !" Nearer and nearer, she urges her foaming way — she is around the point —... | |
| 1844 - 276 ページ
...seaman than a heavy gale of wind. (Signed) NEPTUNE. Witness, AWPHITRITE, her ¡xj mark. CHAPTER I. . She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife : Who would not brave the battle and the wreck, To move the monarch of her peopled... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 ページ
...disappearance of the poetry, hitherto associated with the navy, and may perhaps be reminded of Byron's lines : ''She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. AVho wou'd not brave the battle-fire— the wreck, To move the monarch of her peopled... | |
| 1845 - 532 ページ
...nearer, she breasts the storm and current, flinging the white-caps from her prow as she approaches : " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife !" Nearer and nearer, she urges her foaming way — she is around the point —... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 ページ
...the dark. Already doubled is the cape — our bay Receives that prow which proudly spurns the spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes! Her white...waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire— the wreck — To move the monarch of her... | |
| Robert Swain - 1846 - 278 ページ
...quivering frame ; the sea flashing from her prow, and the white waves boiling and curling in her wake, " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." Aug. 25. On Tuesday we started for a swordfishing voyage off Nantucket Shoals,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 ページ
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she gm's ! г white wings flying — never from her foesShe b( xZ}` hI y 5 6 !8 _ %&G 4 8O z m+ ik " elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreckTo move the monarch of her peopled... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 ページ
...bay Receives that prow which proudly spurns the spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes I Her white wings flying — never from her foes —...waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire— the wreck — To move the monarch of her... | |
| John Dignan - 1847 - 306 ページ
...fellowvoyagers to a strange land. CHAPTER XVI. How gloriously her gallant coarse she g-es ! Her white Hug flying— never from her foes ; She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle fire — the wreckTo move the monarch of her peopled... | |
| 1847 - 540 ページ
...white rocks faded from his view, And soon were lost in circumambient foam. BVRON'S Childe Harold. 6. She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. BYRON'S Corsair. 7. The cloven billow fiash'd from off her prow, In furrows form'd... | |
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