 A THOUSAND miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea ; From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake, like quivering reeds, The mighty cables,...  The Boy's Friend: Or The Maxims of the Cheerful Old Man - Page 30by Carlton BRUCE (pseud. [i.e. George Mogridge.]) - 1837 - 272 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 502 pages
...twtalkra. THE STOBMT rEtEHKt.4 A thousand miles from land are we, '<«sing about on the roaring tea ; From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast. The sails are scattered abroad like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering reeds, The mighty... | |
 | Bryan Waller Procter - 1832 - 270 pages
...fond Night hears, — begin ! XXX— THE STORMY PETREL; S BT TO MUHC HV A THOUSAND miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea ; From billow...billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake, like quivering reeds, The mighty... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...PETREL. [From ' Englith Songi and «lhcr Poemt, bj Barry Cornwall.'] A THOUSAND miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea; From billow...billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast: The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake, like quivering reeds, The mighty... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1838 - 448 pages
...passengers, and half a dozen horses on deck prancing and kicking to get loose, you have something yet to suffer. " Amid the pitiless storm were we Tossing...safe to land, and therefore, I need not now " sing of the dangers of the sea." Paris we saw with her palaces and promenades ; her bridges and her boulevards.... | |
 | Gerritt Van Husen Forbes - Animals - 1833 - 32 pages
...idea which the sailors have that it is the forerunner of the storm : A THOUSAND miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea ; From billow...billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering reeds, The mighty... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Birds - 1835 - 604 pages
...inserting the following beautiful poem by B. Cornwall. THE STORMY PETREL. A thousand miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea ; From billow...billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering reeds ; The mighty... | |
 | Robert Dunn (animal-preserver, Hull.) - Birds - 1837 - 158 pages
...Barry Cornwall will, I doubt not, prove acceptable to the reader. " A thousand miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea, From billow...billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast ; The sails are scattered abroad like weeds, The strong masts shake like quivering reeds, The mighty... | |
 | Chronicles of the sea - 1838 - 488 pages
...love thee still, thou glorious sea ! THE STORMY PETREL.- • • A thousand miles from tend or tree, Tossing about on the roaring sea ; From billow to...billow cast. Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast, When sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, And strong masts shake, like quivering reeds. The mighty... | |
 | Author of Charlie's discoveries - India - 1841 - 242 pages
...pointed to the birds which still hovered near them, and said, G " ' A thousand miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea ; From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy clouds on the stormy blast ; The sails are scattered abroad like weeds, The strong masts shake, like... | |
 | 1872 - 516 pages
...Barry Cornwall sings — " A thousand miles from land are we Tossing about on the roaring sea. Prom billow to bounding billow cast Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast. Up and down, up and down From the base of the wave to the billows' crown. Yet amid the flashing and... | |
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