 Wouldst thou," — so the helmsman answered, "Learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers Comprehend its mystery !" In each sail that skims the horizon, In each landward-blowing breeze, I behold that stately galley, Hear those mournful...  A Catalogue of the ... Exhibition - Page 33by Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour (Great Britain) - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - American literature - 1899 - 440 pages
...horizon, In each landward-blowing breeze, I behold that stately galley, 35 Hear those mournful melodies; Till my soul is full of longing For the secret of...the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me. 40 THE VOYAGE OF MAELDUNE (FOUNDED ON AN IRISH LEGEND AD 700) ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON I I was the chief... | |
 | American poetry - 1899 - 260 pages
...the hard sea-sand." A fervor rings out in vigorous music from the picture-ballads and odes : — " Till my soul is full of longing For the secret of...the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me." A bucolic poet must be one of the people whose natal traits he can portray from personal contact, not... | |
 | Lionel William Lyde - Great Britain - 1899 - 214 pages
...horizon, In each landward blowing breeze, I behold that stately galley, Hear those mournful melodies ; Till my soul is full of longing For the secret of...the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me. LONGFELLOW. The Manner of the Taking of two Spanish ships laden with Quicksilver and the Pope's Bulls,... | |
 | Horace Sumner Tarbell, Martha Tarbell - English language - 1900 - 360 pages
...famous critic has called him " Our Poet of the Sea." In " The Secret of the Sea " Longfellow says : — "Till my soul is full of longing For the secret of...the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me ; " and this must have been true of him all through his life. What is meant by the Hesperides ? (Read... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 484 pages
...horizon, In each landward-blowing breeze, I behold that stately galley, Hear those mournful melodies ; Till my soul is full of longing For the secret of...the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me TWILIGHT. THE twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1901 - 488 pages
...horizon, In each landward-blowing breeze, I behold that stately galley, Hear those mournful melodies ; Till my soul is full of longing For the secret of...of the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through meTWILIGHT. THE twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds... | |
 | Readers - 1902 - 424 pages
...horizon, In each landward-blowing breeze, I behold that stately galley, Hear those mournful melodies, 10. Till my soul is full of longing For the secret of...the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. XXXV. ENCOURAGEMENTS IN THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE. EDWARD EVERETT (1794-1865) was... | |
 | Horace Sumner Tarbell, Martha Tarbell - English language - 1902 - 308 pages
...famous critic has called him " Our Poet of the Sea." In "The Secret of the Sea" Longfellow says : — "Till my soul is full of longing For the secret of...the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me ; " and this must have been true of him all through his life. What is meant by the Hesperides ? (Read... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1902 - 744 pages
...landward-blowing breeze, I behold that stately galley, Hear those mournful melodies ; Till my soul is full qf longing For the secret of the sea, And the heart of...the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me. TWILIGHT. TEE twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - American literature - 1902 - 534 pages
...was not a nature poet, but the sea always inspired him. In the " Secret of the Sea " he says : — And the heart of the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me. His sonnets, some of them, Lowell thought to be among " the most beautiful and perfect we have in the... | |
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