 | James Thomas Fields - 1849 - 118 pages
...editor published the lie That this glorious old cataract 's " all in my eye ! " THE ALARMED SKIPPER. " It was an ancient Mariner." MANY a long, long year...well, They always guessed their reckoning right. A skipper grey, whose eyes were dim, Could tell, by tasting , just the spot, And so below he 'd " dowse... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1849 - 108 pages
...editor published the lie That this glorious old cataract's " all in my eye! " THE ALARMED SKIPPER. " It was an ancient Mariner." MANY a long, long year...well, They always guessed their reckoning right. A skipper grey, whose eyes were dim, Could tell, by tasting, just the spot, And so below he 'd " dowse... | |
 | 1849 - 742 pages
...and discriminating audience. We give below two poems from this little volume. THE ALARMED SKIPPER. "It was an ancient Mariner." Many a long, long year...well, They always guessed their reckoning right. A skipper gray, whose eyes were dim, Could tell, by tasting, just the spot, And so below he 'd " dowse... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...talk ; For after riding all his life, His ghost objects to walk. uooc THE ALARMED SKIPPER MANT a 'ong, long year ago, Nantucket skippers had a plan Of finding...well, They always guessed their reckoning right. A skipper gray, whose eyes were dim, Could tell by tasting, just the spot, And so below, he 'd " dowse... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pages
...long year ago, Nantucket skipjiers had a plan Of finding out, though ' lying low/ How near New-York their schooners ran. " They greased the lead before...night. Knowing the soil that stuck so well, They always guess'd their reckoning right." An old skipper, it seems, " whose eyes were dim," professed to tell... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pages
...long year ago, Nantnckct skippers had a plan Of finding ont, thongh ' lying low,' How near New-York their schooners ran. " They greased the lead before it fell, And then, by sonnding throngh the night. Knowing the soil that stuck so well, They always gness'U their reckoning... | |
 | 1856 - 518 pages
...SKIPPER. MANY a long, long year ago, Nantucket skippers had a plan Of finding out, though " lying low," They greased the lead before it fell, And then, by...well, They always guessed their reckoning right. A skipper gray, whose eyes were dim, Could tell, by tasting, just the spot, Ajid so below he'd " dowse... | |
 | 1859 - 338 pages
...breath! And rounder, rounder, rounder, Roared the iron six pounder ! Hurling death. THE ALARMED SKIPPER. MANY a long, long year ago, Nantucket skippers had...well, They always guessed their reckoning right. A skipper grey, whose eyes were dim, Could tell, by tasting, just the spot; And so, below, he'd "dowse... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...hawid waw ; — Why don't the pawties compwamise ? Vanity Fmr CCCLXV. THE ALARMED SKIPPER. "\/TANY a long, long year ago, Nantucket skippers had a plan...well, They always guessed their reckoning right. A skipper gray, whose eyes were dim, Could tell by tasting, just the spot, And so below, he 'd " dowse... | |
 | 1884 - 794 pages
...MANT a lonjr, long year acfo, Nantuckct shippers had a plan Of finding out, though '• lying low," They greased the lead before it fell, And then by...well, They always guessed their reckoning right A skipper gray, whose eyes were dim, Could tell, by tasting, just the spot. And so below he'd " douse... | |
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MANY a long, long year ago, Nantucket skippers had a plan Of finding out, though " lying low," How near New York their schooners ran. They greased the lead before it fell, And then, by sounding through the night. Knowing the soil that stuck, so well,... 
