 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.  The corsair, a tale [in verse.]. - Page 15by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 114 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...the dark. Already doubled is the cape — our bay Receives that prow which proudly spurns the spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes! Her white...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 cable rings; The... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she gm's ! г white wings flying — never from her foesShe b( xZ}` hI y 5 6 !8 _ %&G 4 8O z m+ ik " And...heart will break, yet brokenly live on : ХХХШ wreckTo move the monarch of her peopled deck? IV. rloarse o'er her side the rustling cable rings ;... | |
 | Robert Swain - 1846 - 278 pages
...quivering frame ; the sea flashing from her prow, and the white waves boiling and curling in her wake, " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." Aug. 25. On Tuesday we started for a swordfishing voyage off Nantucket Shoals, and so on to Nahant.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...bay Receives that prow which proudly spurns the spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes I immortality. Lucifer. Thou didst before I came upon thee. Cain. IIow ? Lucifer. By suffering. — To move the monarch of her peopled deck 1 IV. I Hoarse o'er her side the rustling cable rings ;... | |
 | John Dignan - 1847 - 306 pages
...fellowvoyagers to a strange land. CHAPTER XVI. How gloriously her gallant coarse she g-es ! Her white Hug flying— never from her foes ; She walks the waters...dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle fire — the wreckTo move the monarch of her peopled deck ? BYRON'S Corsair. In order to put... | |
 | Tracts for the people - 1847 - 800 pages
...ease." How beautiful is the gallant ship, with her white canvass spread to catch the freshening breeze! she "•"Walks the waters like a thing Of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." Bnt the sky is overcast — an appalling accident occurs, and lo I she becomes in a moment the sport... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...white rocks faded from his view, And soon were lost in circumambient foam. BVRON'S Childe Harold. 6. She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. BYRON'S Corsair. 7. The cloven billow fiash'd from off her prow, In furrows form'd by that majestic... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1847 - 614 pages
...ease." How beautiful is the gallant ship, with her white canvass spread to catch the freshening breeze ! she " Walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." But the sky is overcast — an appalling accident occurs, and lo ! she becomes, in a moment, the sport... | |
 | 1847 - 884 pages
...the adventurous fisherman, then the stately ship, which, in the expressive language of the poet, ' Walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife;' and after this the wonder-working perfection of the all but miraculous steam-ship. To the scarcely... | |
 | 1847 - 446 pages
...the adventurous fisherman, then the stately ship, which, in the expressive language of the poet, ' Walks the waters like a thing of life, * And seems to dare the elements to strife ; ' and after this the wonder-working perfection of the all but miraculous steam-ship. To the scarcely... | |
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