 With ceaseless motion comes and goes the tide, Flowing, it fills the channel vast and wide ; Then back to sea, with strong majestic sweep It rolls, in ebb yet terrible and deep ; Here Samphire-banks and Salt-wort bound the flood, There stakes and sea-weeds...  The National Review - Page 51859Full view - About this book
 | George Crabbe - 1810 - 612 pages
...rolls, in ebb yet terrible and deep : * The white Water-Lily. Nymphaca alba. Here Sam pi re-Banks* and Salt-wort + bound the Flood, There Stakes and...ridge of all things base, Which some strong tide has rolFd upon the place. Thy gentle River boasts ils pigmy Boat, Urg'd on by pains, half grounded, half... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1810 - 402 pages
...It rolls, in ebb yet terrible and deep : * The white Water-Lily. Nymphaea alba. Here Sampire-Banks * and Salt-wort + bound the Flood, There Stakes and...ridge of all things base, Which some strong tide has roll'd upon the place. Thy gentle River boasts its pigmy Boat, Urg'd on by pains, half grounded, half... | |
 | 1811 - 694 pages
...terrible and deep : Here fampirc-banks * and falt-wort i bound the flood, There (lakes and fe.i.wc.\is withering on the mud ; And higher up, a ridge of all things bafe, Which fomc ftrong tide has roll-'d upon (he place. gentle river boalb its pigmy boat, Urg'd on... | |
 | 1811 - 696 pages
...terrible and deep : Here fampire-banks* and fah-wort t bound the flood, There (takes and fea-Weeds withering on the mud ; And higher up, a ridge of all things bafe, \Vhich fome ftrong tide has roll'd upon the place* j " Thy gentle river boafts its pigmy boat,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 340 pages
...ebb yet terrible and deep, The white Water-lily. Nymph«a alba. Here Sampire-Banks* and Salt-wort t bound the Flood, There Stakes and Sea-weeds withering...ridge of all things base, Which some strong tide has roll'd upon the place. Thy gentle River boasts its pigmy Boat, Urg'd on by pains, half grounded, half... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 346 pages
...ebb yet terrible and deep ; ' Tho white Water-lily. Nymphaa alba. Here Sampirc-Banks* and Salt-wort t bound the Flood, There Stakes and Sea-weeds withering...ridge of all things base, Which some strong tide has roll'd upon the place. Thy gentle River boasts its pigmy Boat, TJrg'd on by pains, half grounded, half... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 450 pages
...to sea, with strong majestic sweep It rolls, in ebb yet terrible and deep ; Here sampire-banks (v) and salt-wort <•') bound the flood, There stakes...ridge of all things base, Which some strong tide has roll'd upon the place. Thy gentle river boasts its pigmy boat, Urged on by' pains, half grounded, half... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 452 pages
...strong majestic sweep It rolls, in ebb yet terrible and deep ; Here sampire-banks cv) and salt-wort W bound the flood, There stakes and sea-weeds withering...ridge of all things base, Which some strong tide has roll'd upon the place. Thy gentle river boasts its pigmy boat, Urged on by pains, half grounded, half... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1899 - 540 pages
...back to sea, with strong majestic sweep It rolls, in ebb yet terrible and deep ; Here Samphire-banks f and Saltwort} bound the flood, There stakes and sea-weeds...ridge of all things base, Which some strong tide has roll'd upon the place. Thy gentle river boasts its pigmy boat, Urged on by pains, half-grounded, half... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 pages
...particular, has been painted with all the minuteness of a Dutch landscape : — " Here samphire banks and saltwort bound the flood, There stakes and sea-weeds...Which some strong tide has rolled upon the place. . . . Yon is our quay ! those smaller hoys from town, Its various wares for country use bring down."... | |
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