 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...strays ; Thames, the most loved of all the ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs ; Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity." It would appear from Denham's description of the woods that overhang the plain between the hill and... | |
 | James Caughey - 1847 - 376 pages
...the shipping and the river, streaming on from where, — " Thames among the valleys strays, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity." We have been to the Parks, where London breathes. There are many trees scattered, tufted, or in groves... | |
 | 1847 - 490 pages
...strays, Thames, the most loved of all the Ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs; Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity ! Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...strays : Thames ! the most lov'd of all the Ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to...their gravel gold : His genuine and less guilty wealth to' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore, O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no remembrance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold, His genuine and loss guilty wealth to explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore. O'er which he kindly spreads... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pages
...strays. Than es ! the most loved of all the ocean's sons By his old sire, to Ms embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, like mortal life to...their gravel gold : His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore, O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...strays; Thames, the most lov'd of all the ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no remembrance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth to... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...strays; Thames, the most lov'd of all the ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no remembrance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth to... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...strays. Thames ! the most lov'd of all the Ocean's sons, By his old sire, to lus embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to...their gravel gold: His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore, O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious... | |
 | William Maxwell - 1852 - 500 pages
...apply the memorable lines of Sir John Denham on the Thames, to our own river ; and say, exultingly : Though with those streams he no resemblance hold,...their gravel gold ; His genuine and less guilty wealth 't explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore. A READER. From Fraser's Magazine. EDMUND BURKE... | |
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Thames ! the most loved of all the Ocean's sons, By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity ; Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber, and their gravel... 
