 | Alfred Edmund Brehm - 1874 - 970 pages
...(Thalassidroma pelagica). " Up and down ! up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's erown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The Stormy...a place may be, For her who lives on the wide wide sea, On the eraggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young, and to... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 pages
...proud strength disown. Up and down ! up and down I From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, Amidst the flashing and feathery foam The stormy petrel finds a home ; A home — if such a place can be For her who lives on the wide wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 272 pages
...strength disown. Up and down ! up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown ; And 'midst the flashing and feathery foam The stormy petrel finds...a place may be, For her who lives on the wide wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young, and to... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1875 - 472 pages
...bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast: Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the...and feathery foam The Stormy Petrel finds a home!" The zest and movements of these and a few kindred melodies have brought them into special favor. Their... | |
 | Birds - 1875 - 276 pages
...throb, as it beats to and fro. A no>i. THE STORMY PETREL. UP and down ! up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, . • And amidst the flashing and fe'th'ry foam The Stormy Petrel Hilda a home; A'home, if such a place there be For her who lives on... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...like stone Their natural, hard, proud strength disown. Up and down ! — up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the...a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young, and to... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 314 pages
...hearts like stone Their natural hard, prond strength disown. Up and down ! Up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the...place may be, For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young, and to... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...like stone Their natural, hard, proud strength disown. Up and down ! — up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the...a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On tho craggy ice, In the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young, and to... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 126 pages
...bl.;cfe, tipped with white on the edges of the wings. Up and down ! — up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the...place may be, For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young, and to... | |
 | London readers - 1878 - 344 pages
...proud strength disown. Up and down ! up and down ! From the base of the nave to the billows' crown, Amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The stormy petrel finds a home ; A home, — if such a place can be For her who lives on the wide wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeking... | |
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And amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The stormy petrel finds a home; A home, if such a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young, and to teach them... 
