 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 378 lapas
...will ; 80 To such, brief answer and contemptuous eye Convey reproof, nor further deign reply. III. " A sail! — a sail !" — a promised prize to Hope! Her nation — flag — how speaks the telescope ? No prize, alas ! — but yet a welcome sail : The blood-red signal glitters in the gale. Yes— she... | |
 | 1831 - 1044 lapas
...craft, in ludicrous alarm, are seen scudding, under bare poles, helter-skelter, for any haven, lo ! " SHE walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife!" We are sick and surly — and no wonder. The Whigs are In. But " yet there is ae comfort left" —... | |
 | 1831 - 602 lapas
...appeared since its publication ; especiallv Lord Byron's well-known and justly-admired couplet — " She walks the waters like a thing of life ; And seems to dare the elements to strife." Nor is the next quotation less powerful in its kind, although of a different stamp : THE WRECK. But... | |
 | 1824 - 758 lapas
...vessel ; watch her approach with the spy-glass, for that implement is to be found in every one's hand. " A sail, a sail ! a promised prize to hope— Her nation ? flag ? what says the telescope ?" Much and boyishly did I use to marvel when my eye, by mean: of the optic... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 336 lapas
...will; 80 To such, brief answer and contemptuous eye Convey reproof, nor further deign reply. III. " A sail ! — a sail ! " — a promised prize to Hope ! Her nation — flag — how sprtiks the telescope ? No prize, alas! — but yet a welcome sail: The blood -red signal glitters... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 308 lapas
...will ; 80 To such, brief answer and contemptuous eye Convey reproof, nor further deign reply. III. " A sail ! — a sail !" — a promised prize to Hope...! Her nation — flag — how speaks the telescope ? No prize, alas ! — but yet a welcome sail : 85 The blood-red signal glitters in the gale. Yes —... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 486 lapas
...will ; To such, brief answer and contemptuous eye Convey reproof, nor farther deign reply. III. « A sail ! — a sail ! » a promised prize to Hope ! Her nation — flag — bow speaks the telescope ? No prize, alas! — but yet a welcome sail : The blood-red signal glitters... | |
 | 1822 - 694 lapas
...stud-sails, is to fancy one of those lady-ships, who from Trojan galleys were changed into seanymphs; — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. For all that he has endured, our mariner has only been made a gunner's mate ; but " one man is born... | |
 | 1823 - 494 lapas
...stud-sails, is to fancy one of those lady-ships, who from Trojan galley» were changed into sea-nymphs ; — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. For all that he has endured, our mariner has only been made a gunner'* mate ; but " one man is born... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 468 lapas
...will ; 80 To such, brief answer and contemptuous eye Convey reproof, nor further deign reply. III. " A sail ! — a sail !" — a promised prize to Hope...! Her nation — flag — how speaks the telescope ? No prize, alas ! — but yet a welcome sail : The blood-red signal glitters in the gale. Yes —... | |
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Blow fair, thou breeze ! — she anchors ere the dark. Already doubled is the cape — our bay Receives that prow which proudly spurns the spray. How gloriously... 
