 Dauber felt shut in within a hedge, Behind which form was hidden and thought was rife, And that a blinding flash, a thrust, a knife Would sweep the hedge away and make all plain, Brilliant beyond all words, blinding the brain. So the night passed, but...  The American Review of Reviews - Page 3701913Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 766 pages
...She bayed there like a solitary hound Lost in a covert. Morning came, bringing no release from fear : So the night passed, but then no morning broke—...appear. And sometimes drew away, and then drew near. Then suddenly swooped down the immense black fiend of the storm, catching, as the Bosun put it, the... | |
 | John Masefield - English poetry - 1912 - 360 pages
...the night passed, but then no morning broke, Only a something showed that night was dead, A sea bird, cackling like a devil, spoke, And the fog drew away...did appear, And sometimes drew away and then drew Like islands and like chasms and like hell, But always mighty and red, gloomy and ruddy, Shutting the... | |
 | John Masefield - English poetry - 1912 - 358 pages
...Would sweep the hedge away and make all plain, Brilliant beyond all words, blinding the brain. sheer, So the night passed, but then no morning broke, Only a something showed that night was dead, A sea bird, cackling like a devil, spoke, And the fog drew away and hung like lead : Like mighty cliffs... | |
 | Robert Lynd - English literature - 1919 - 260 pages
...She bayed there like a solitary hound Lost in a covert. Morning came, bringing no release from fear : So the night passed, but then no morning broke —...appear, And sometimes drew away, and then drew near. Then suddenly swooped down the immense black fiend of the storm, catching, as the Bosun put it, the... | |
 | Guy Noel Pocock - English poetry - 1920 - 202 pages
...knife, Would sweep the hedge away and make all plain. Brilliant beyond all words, blinding the brain. So the night passed, but then no morning broke, Only a something shewed that night was dead, A sea-bird, cackling like a devil, spoke, And the fog drew away and hung... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - American poetry - 1921 - 450 pages
...boy who shipped as a seaman because he wished to be an artist — especially a painter of the Ma.] So the night passed, but then no morning broke —...lead. Like mighty cliffs it shaped, sullen and red; * Copyright by the Macmillan Company.^ Reprinted from "Dauber" by special permission of the publishers... | |
 | John Masefield - 1924 - 110 pages
...the hedge away and make all plain, Brilliant beyond all words, blinding the brain. So the night past, but then no morning broke — Only a something showed...appear, And sometimes drew away, and then drew near. M Like islands, and like chasms, and like hell, But always mighty and red, gloomy and ruddy, Shutting... | |
 | Language and languages - 1926 - 526 pages
...cackling like a devil, spoke. And thé fog drew away and hung like lead. Like mighty cliffs it sbaped, sullen and red ; Like glowering gods at watch it did appear, And sometimes drew away and IheB drew near, Like islands and like chasms and like hell. But always mighty and red, gloomy and ruddy,... | |
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