| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 378 pages
...spray ; 90 How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes. She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems...wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV. Hoarse o'er her side the rustling cable rings ; The sails are furl'd ; and anchoring round she... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 248 pages
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes! 91 Her white wings flying—never from her foes— She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems...dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire—the wreck— To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV. Hoarse o'er her side the rustling... | |
| Mary Anne McMullan - 1816 - 376 pages
...domestic enjoyments of his home; and in the fulness of his heart he could not forbear exclaiming " Who would not brave the battle-fire ! — the wreck! To move the monarch of her peopled deck ?" The extraordinary novelty of every object that now surrounded me ; the strangeness of every syllable,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 246 pages
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes! 91 Her white wings flying—never from her foes— She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems...dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire—the wreck— To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV. Hoarse o'er her side the rustling... | |
| 1831 - 602 pages
...appeared since its publication ; especiallv Lord Byron's well-known and justly-admired couplet — " She walks the waters like a thing of life ; And seems to dare the elements to strife." Nor is the next quotation less powerful in its kind, although of a different stamp : THE WRECK. But... | |
| 1831 - 1044 pages
...craft, in ludicrous alarm, are seen scudding, under bare poles, helter-skelter, for any haven, lo ! " SHE walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife!" We are sick and surly — and no wonder. The Whigs are In. But " yet there is ae comfort left" —... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 152 pages
...DO How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems...Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — 05 To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV. Hoarse o'er her side the rustling cable rings... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 336 pages
...90 How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white. wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. \VIio would not brave the battle - fire — the wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck?... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 308 pages
...spray.90 How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems...Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — 95 To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV. Hoarse o'er her side the rustling cable rings... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 486 pages
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying— never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems...'Wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck? IV. Hoarse o'er her side the rustling cable rings ; The sails are furled ; and anchoring round she... | |
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