Welcome to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed. And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam to sail Where'er... The North American Review - Page 82edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock on Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." -He then adds, that he resumes the tale of " the wandering outlaw of his own dark mind," to him " a... | |
| English literature - 1817 - 590 pages
...a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.' Canto III. pp. 3, 4. The theme of Childe Harold is then resumed, and the stanzas follow which we have... | |
| Religion - 1818 - 904 pages
...a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I 011; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." pp.S,4, The noble bard takes the opportunity, during this vagrant voyage, of relating, in about a dozen... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on; for I am as a wred, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. III. In my youth's summer I did sing of One, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind; Again I seize... | |
| Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...3ten Tleil von Childe Harold sagt: Once more upon the waters, yes , once more. I am as a weed Flung from the rock , on ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the 'surge may sweep , the tempest breath prevail *). Er ging nach den Niederlanden, Deutschland, der Schweiz, und leht jetzt... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for 1 am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. III. In my youth's summer I did sing of One, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind; Again I seize... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1821 - 766 pages
...Arioslo. — Natura il fece, e poi ruppi la stampa. Byron. Still must I on, for I am as weed Flung from the rock on ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest'* breath provail. — CH iii. 2. Montgomery. — He only, like the ocean weed uptorn, And loose... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...a reed, And the rent eanvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's hreath prevail. In. In my youth's summer I did sing of One, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind... | |
| George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for [ am as a weed. Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. It is this kind of personal allusion thut we most object to in the whole of this third canto, and we... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. .' In my youth's summer I did sing of one, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind; Again I seize... | |
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