 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...mast should quiver as 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,...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... | |
 | Willard Phillips - 1826 - 194 pages
...should quiyer as a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering sjtrew. 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 j the tempest's breath prevail . There is something glorious in the energy, which can regard the ocean... | |
 | English literature - 1827 - 574 pages
...should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam to sail...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail !" Lord Byron. The SON NET* is also of Italian origin. I have already occupied so much space, that... | |
 | Miss Hart - Bahamas - 1827 - 220 pages
...loneliness, and think of the past, and can you condemn me ? My loneliness i it is frightful. " I feel as a weed Flung from the rock on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's Hv.it I • prevail." The fourteenth evening after I kft you, we landed on the American shore ; the... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...Though the straiued mast should quiver as a reed, Ami the rent canvass fluttering strew the § ale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. It is this kind of personal allusion that we most object to in the whole of this third canto, and we... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...reed, And the rent canvas fluttering on the gale Still must I on — for I am as a weed I Hung from a rock, on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er the surge may sweep — the tempest's breath prevail. Byron. SPEECH OF AN OLD OAK IN THE PLEASURE GROUND AT . Stranger, if peace delights your cultured mind... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...And the rent canv.ts fluttering strew the gale, Slill must I on ; for Ï am as a weed. Flung from ihe rock, on ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breatli prevail. TIT. In my youth's summer I did sing of one, The wandering outlaw of bis own dark... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1828 - 780 pages
...And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale. Still must I on ; for [ am .is a weed. Flung from (he rock, on ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's brent I prevail. III. In my youth's summer I did sing of one. The wandering outlaw of his own Hark... | |
 | Horace - 1830 - 1104 pages
...guidance, wheresoc'er it lead! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." ODE 8. Addressed to Lydia, and reproaching her for detaining the young Sybaris, by her alluring arts,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 pages
...beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome, to their roar ! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as...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... | |
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Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome, to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the... 
