 | Albert Brecknock - Poets, English - 1926 - 344 pages
...use these words from " Cain " to substantiate this idea : " I am a weed Flung from the rock, on ocean foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." Byron wished to picture the low depths of corrupted nobility as it then existed, and he must needs... | |
 | American literature - 1907 - 912 pages
...his rider. Welcome to their roar ! Swift be their guidance wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strained mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. This is rhetoric, perhaps, — call it what you will, — but it is rhetoric which attains its object.... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 592 pages
...guidance, wheresoe'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.' Canto III. pp. 3, 4. The theme of Childe Harold is then resumed, and the stanzas follow which we have... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1905 - 874 pages
...opening stanza of the Corsair, ' O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea ? ' Is there not power in it ? Still must I on ; for I am as a weed Flung from the...Ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep. And is there not here the restfulness of its eternity ? Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll... | |
 | Charles Lyell - Science - 1990 - 352 pages
...currents, and other causes, do not interfere. All are familiar with the sight of the floating sea-weed " Flung from the rock on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." Remarkable accumulations of drift weed occur on each side of the equator in the Atlantic, Pacific,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Weleome 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. Ill In my youth's summer I did sing of One, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind; 20 Again I seize... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...guidance, wheresoe'er it lead! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, 15 And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on; for I...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. II 1n In my youth's summer I did sing of One, 20 The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind; Again I... | |
 | Karl Simms - Critical theory - 1997 - 318 pages
...the word "seize") and reaching backwards out of the driven movement of the second stanza: for l ani as a weed. Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, or tempest's breath prevail (Byron l980: 77). Michael Cooke glosses the "rock" here as "stability"... | |
 | Brigitte Glaser - Criticism - 2001 - 678 pages
...wie er in dem 3ten Theil von Childe Harold sagt: Once more upon tte waters, yes, once more. I am äs a weed Flung from the rock, on ocean's foam, to sail...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. Er ging nach den Niederlanden, Deutschland, der Schweiz, und lebt jetzt in Italien. Die Früchte dieser... | |
 | Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin - History - 2004 - 400 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...Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, or tempest's breath prevail. 3 In my youth's summer I did sing of One,4 The wandering outlaw of his... | |
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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... 
