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" Strong is the lion — like a coal His eyeball, — like a bastion's mole His chest against the foes: Strong the gier-eagle on his sail; Strong against tide th 'enormous whale Emerges as he goes. "
An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Coast of Sussex: Brighton ... - Page 132
by John Docwra Parry - 1833 - 435 pages
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English Grammar and Composition

Alexander Malcolm Williams - English language - 1909 - 454 pages
...volcano ", " As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion ". Strong is the lion — like a coal His eyeball — like a bastion's mole His chest against the foes. In these examples words of comparison, as, so, like, occur, but similarity...
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English Poetry: Volume 2

English poetry - 1910 - 524 pages
...Strong the tall ostrich on the ground; Strong through the turbulent profound Shoots Xiphias to his aim. Strong is the lion — like a coal His eyeball — like a bastion's mole His chest against the foes : Strong the gier-eagle on his sail, Strong against tide the enormous whale...
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English Poetry..: With Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, Volume 2

English poetry - 1910 - 298 pages
...Strong the tall ostrich on the ground; Strong through the turbulent profound Shoots Xiphias to his aim. Strong is the lion — like a coal His eyeball — like a bastion's mole His chest against the foes : Strong the gier-eagle on his sail, Strong against tide the enormous whale...
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English ..., Volume 8, Pages 3149-3742

American poetry - 1912 - 616 pages
...Strong the tall ostrich.on the ground; Strong through the turbulent profound Shoots Xiphias to his aim. Strong is the lion — like a coal His eyeball,— like a bastion's mole His chest against the foes: Strong the gier-eagle on his sail; Strong against tide the enormous whale Emerges...
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The English Lyric

Felix Emmanuel Schelling - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 362 pages
...madness, or with Mr. Symons, as the madness of genius. Here are two stanzas from this remarkable poem: Strong is the lion — like a coal His eyeball, — like a bastion's mole His chest against the foes: Strong the gier-eagle on his sail; Strong against tide th' enormous whale Emerges...
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The English Lyric

Felix Emmanuel Schelling - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 360 pages
...madness, or with Mr. Symons, as the madness of genius. Here are two stanzas from this remarkable poem: Strong is the lion — like a coal His eyeball, — like a bastion's mole His chest against the foes: Strong the gier-eagle on his sail; Strong against tide th' enormous whale Emerges...
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English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 412 pages
...The dark moss whistles there; the distant mariner sees the waving trees ! CHRISTOPHER SMAKT FROM A SONG TO DAVID Strong is the lion — like a coal His eyeball, like a bastion's mole His chest against the foes; Strong the gier-eagle on his sail ; Strong against tide th' enormous whale...
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 2

American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...Strong the tall ostrich on the ground; Strong through the turbulent profound Shoots Xiphias to his aim. ay In mist and shadow of the mere! — Where with him, with him, all the way, cftest against the foes: Strong the gier-eagle on his sail; Strong against tide the enormous whale...
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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1918 - 1116 pages
...Strong the tall ostrich on the ground; Strong through the turbulent profound Shoots Xiphias to his aim. Strong is the lion — like a coal His eyeball, — like a bastion's mole His chest against the foes : Strong the gier-eagle on his sail; Strong against tide th' enormous whale...
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Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1921 - 626 pages
...Strong the tall ostrich on the ground ; Strong thro' the turbulent profound Shoots xiphias2 to his aim. Strong is the lion — like a coal His eyeball — like a bastion's moie His chest against the foes ; Strong, the gier-eagle on his sail.Strong against tide th" enormous...
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