 As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail at dawn of day Are scarce long leagues apart descried ; When fell the night, upsprung the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied, Nor dreamt but each the...  The Catholic Record - Page 2051878Full view - About this book
 | England - 1862 - 818 pages
...volume before us, written in his earlier years : — " As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvass drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail at dawn of day Arc scarce long leagues apart descried; When foil the light, up sprung!the breeze, And all the darkling... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Burbidge - English poetry - 1849 - 170 pages
...; Some day thou shalt it view. Qua cur sum ventus. As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvass drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail at dawn...long leagues apart descried ; When fell the night, upsprung the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied, Nor dreamt but each the self-same seas... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Burbidge - English poetry - 1849 - 178 pages
...shalt it view. 49 Qua curium cental. As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay . With canvass drooping, Bide by side, Two towers of sail at dawn of day Are scarce...long leagues apart descried ; \ When fell the night, upsprung tho breeze. And all the darkling hours they plied, ji Nor dreamt but each tho self-same seas... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...effusions, where, it must be candidly allowed, that a want of taste is sometimes discernible : — " he mind many thoughts of trifling separate value which...BLACK, AND FEW SO WHITE, AS THEY ARE PAINTED. WHEN S upsprung the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied, Nor dreamt but each the self-fame peas... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...effusions, where, it must be candidly allowed, that a want of taste is sometimes discernible : — " As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping,...long leagues apart descried ; When fell the night, upsprung the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied, ^Jor dreamt but each the self-same seas... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 550 pages
...that a want of taste is sometimes discernible : — "As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvass drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail at dawn...long leagues apart descried ; When fell the night, upsprung the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied, Nor dreamt but each the self-same seas... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 228 pages
...on the morning When Youth stood trembling on the ocean-shore. T. "W. HIGGINSON. 'AS SHIPS BECALMED.' As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping,...long leagues apart, descried ; When fell the night, upsprung the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied, Nor dreamt but each the self-same seas... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 234 pages
...serenely on the morning When Youth stood trembling on the ocean-shore. TW HIGGINSON. 'AS SHIPS BECALMED.' As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping,...long leagues apart, descried ; When fell the night, upsprung the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied, Nor dreamt but each the self-same seas... | |
 | SMITH - 1862 - 924 pages
...poetry, there is little or none. Tin; nearest approach to poetry is perhaps in the following : — QUA CURSUM VENTUS. As ships becalmed at eve, that...Two towers of sail at dawn of day Are scarce long lengues apart descried; TVhen fell the night, up sprung the href zc, And all the darkling hours they... | |
 | 1863 - 530 pages
...generally selected as the most beautiful, the most truly poetical of all his compositions. ' Qua fursum ventus. As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas...long leagues apart descried ; When fell the night, upsprung the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied, Nor dreamt but each the self-same seas... | |
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