| John Daniel Morell - 1874 - 336 pages
...waiting for a sail; . . . No sail from day to day, but every day The sunrise broken into scarlet shafts Among the palms and ferns and precipices ; The blaze...the east ; The blaze upon his island overhead ; The blase upon the waters to the west ; Then the great stars that globed 1 themselves in heaven, The hollower-bellowing2... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1874 - 368 pages
...serpent — a sea, too, awfully becalmed : — " Every day The sunrise, broken into scarlet shafts Among the palms and ferns and precipices ; The blaze upon the waters to the east, * Peter Bayne, " The Days of Elijah." The blaze upon the waters to the west, Or the low moan of leaden-coloured... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1874 - 368 pages
...slimy serpent—a sea, too, awfully becalmed :— s " Every day The sunrise, broken into scarlet shafts Among the palms and ferns and precipices ; The blaze upon the waters to the east, * Peter Bayne, " The Days of Elijah." The blaze upon the waters to the west, Or the low moan of leaden-coloured... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pages
...waiting for a sail ; No sad from day to day, but every day The sunrise broken into scarlet shafts t Among the palms and ferns and precipices ; The blaze...again The scarlet shafts of sunrise, — but no sail. THE BUGLE SONG. THE splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits, old in story ; The long light... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...sail : No sail from day to day, but every day The sunrise broken into scarlet shafts Among the pahns and ferns and precipices; • The blaze upon the waters...great stars that globed themselves in Heaven, The hollowcr-bellowing ocean, and again The scarlet shafts of sunrise — but no sail. There often as he... | |
| Egerton K. Laird - 1875 - 426 pages
...cruising among the islands of the Dutch Archipelago, where " The sunrise broka into scarlet shafts Among the palms and ferns and precipices ; The blaze...overhead ; The blaze upon the waters to the West," &o., *o. After breakfast I drove into town to call upon the Messrs. A . I lunched with W. R . On my... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1893 - 576 pages
...sailor, wailing for a sail: No sail from day to day, but every day The sunrise broken into scarlet shafts Among the palms and ferns and precipices ; The blaze...again The scarlet shafts of sunrise — but no sail.' Nothing could be more elaborate, but mark how the elaboration is broken by the two italicised passages... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 pages
...sail from day to day, but every day The sunrise broken into scarlet shafts Among the palms and ferus and precipices ; The blaze upon the waters to the...again The scarlet shafts of sunrise, — but no sail. THE BUGLE SONG. THE splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits, old in story ; The long light... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...shafts Among the palms and/erns and precipices Tin; bliize upon the Wffters to the east ; The blase upon his island overhead ; The blaze upon -the waters...again The scarlet shafts of sunrise — but no sail. There often as he watch'd orseem'd to (watch, So still, the golden lizard on him paused. A phantom... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 pages
...waiting for a sail ; No sail from day to day, but every day The sunrise broken into scarlet shafts Among the palms and ferns and precipices ; The blaze...again The scarlet shafts of sunrise, — but no sail. THE BUGLE SONG. THE splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits, old in story ; The long light... | |
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