 As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand, And wait for favouring winds to leave the land; While still for flight the ready wing is spread: So waited I the favouring hour, and fled; Fled from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cried,...  Poems - Page 10by George Crabbe - 1812Full view - About this book
 | 1807 - 532 pages
...their coast directs its venturous wajy Their's or the ocean's miserable prey. As on their neighbimrrng beach yon swallows stand, And wait for favouring winds...fled ; Fled from these shores, where guilt and famine reigrt, And cry'd, Ah ! hapless they who still remain ; Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 276 pages
...eager eye ; Which to their coast directs its vent'rous way, Their's or the ocean's miserable prey. As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand,...fled ; Fled from these shores where guilt and famine reigft, And cry'd, Ah ! hapless they who still remain ; Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 306 pages
...eager eye ; Which to their coast directs its vent' rous way, Theirs, or the ocean's, miserable prey. As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand...the ready wing is spread : So waited I the favouring hoar, and fled ; Fled from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cry'd, Ah ! hapless they... | |
 | James Ford - 1818 - 432 pages
...Which to their coast directs its vent'rous way, Their's, or the ocean's miserable prey. As on then- neighbouring beach yon swallows stand, And wait for...leave the land ; While still for flight the ready wiug is spread : So waited I the favouring hour, and fled ; « Fled from these shores where guilt and... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 334 pages
...eager eye, Which to their coast directs its vent'rous way; Theirs, or the ocean's, miserable prey. As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand,...from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cried, Ah ! hapless they who still remain; Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose greedy waves... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 302 pages
...eager eye, Which to their coast directs its vent'rous way; Theirs, or the ocean's, miserable prey. As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand,...from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cried, Ah! hapless they who still remain ; Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose greedy waves-... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 296 pages
...eager eye, Which to their coast directs its vent'rous way; Theirs, or the ocean's, miserable prey. As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand, And wait for favouring winds to leave the land j WLile still for flight the ready wing is spread : So waited I the favouring hour, and fled ; Fled... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1899 - 540 pages
...fcheir eager eye, Which to their coast directs its vent'rous way ; Theirs or the ocean's miserable prey. As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand,...from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cried, Ah ! hapless they who still remain; Who still re:nain to hear the ocean roar, Whose greedy waves... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1829 - 348 pages
...oeean's, ийытаhle prey. As on their neighhonring heaeh yon swallows etand, And wait for favonring winds to leave the land; While still for flight the ready wing is spread : So waited I the favonring honr, and fled; Fled from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And eried, Ah ! hapless... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 590 pages
...eager eye, Which to their coast directs its vent'rous way, Theirs or the ocean's miserable prey. ' As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand,...and fled — Fled from these shores, where guilt and rapine reign, And cried, Ah ! hapless they who still remain, — Who still remain to hear the ocean... | |
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