| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1870 - 336 páginas
...tempestuous wave ; Wading far out among the rocks and sands, The night-o'ertaken mariner to save. " And the great ships sail outward and return, Bending...swells ; And ever joyful, as they see it burn, " They come forth from the darkness, and their sails Gleam for a moment only in the blaze ; And eager faces,... | |
| William Jones (F. S.) - 1871 - 488 páginas
...perilous reef along the ocean's verge, Starts into life a dim gigantic shape, Holding its lantern o'er the restless surge. ******* " And the great ships...burn, They wave their silent welcomes and farewells." LONGFELLOW. IJHERE can be no object, my young friends, more suggestive of pleasant thoughts, of home,... | |
| 1871 - 314 páginas
...restless surge. Like the great giant Christopher it stands Upon the brink of the tempestuous wave, And the great ships sail outward and return, Bending...burn, They wave their silent welcomes and farewells. They come forth from the darkness, and their sails Gleam for a moment only in the blaze, And eager... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 656 páginas
...the tempestuous wave, Wading far out among the rocks and sands, The night-o'ertaken mariner to save. And the great ships sail outward and return. Bending...joyful, as they see it burn, They wave their silent weleomes and farewells. They come forth from the darkness, and their sails Gleam for a moment only... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 páginas
...the tempestuous wave, Wading far out among the rocks and sands, The night-o'ertaken mariner to save. And the great ships sail outward and return, Bending...burn, They wave their silent welcomes and farewells. They come forth from the darkness, and their sails Gleam for a moment only in the blaze, And eager... | |
| National reading books - 1871 - 232 páginas
...fade and sink ; And when, returning from adventures wild, He saw it rise again o.er ocean.s brink. And the great ships sail outward and return Bending...burn, They wave their silent welcomes and farewells. The returning missionary from afar seeing its guiding ray piercing the night may often have been reminded... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1873 - 408 páginas
...perilous reef along the ocean's verge, Starts into life a dim, 'gigantic shape, Holding its lantern o'er the restless surge. And the great ships sail outward...burn, They wave their silent welcomes and farewells. They come forth from the darkness, and their sails Gleam for a moment only in the blaze ; And eager... | |
| Henry C. Leonard - 1873 - 214 páginas
...the tempestuous wave, Wading far out among the rocks and sands, The night-o'ertaken mariner to save. And the great ships sail outward and return, Bending...burn, They wave their silent welcomes and farewells. They come forth from the darkness, and their sails Gleam for a moment only in the blaze, And eager... | |
| Edward Jeboult - 1873 - 394 páginas
...Trinity-house Commissioners have erected two light-houses at Bnrnham. And the great ships sail outwards and return, Bending and bowing o'er the billowy swells ; And ever joyful, as they see them burn, They ware their silent welcomes and farewells. There was an ancieat light-house here, that... | |
| Sarah Prideaux Fox - 1874 - 288 páginas
...some miles away, The lighthouse lifts its massive masonry, A pillar of fire by night, of cloud by day. And the great ships sail outward and return, Bending...burn, They wave their silent welcomes and farewells." Longfellow. POLWHELE says, in reference to Start Point, (but we have never seen it mentioned elsewhere)... | |
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