 As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand , And wait for favouring winds to leave the land ; While still for flight the ready wing is spread : So waited I the favouring hour, and fled...  The Bookman - Page 501906Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1807 - 532 pages
...their coast directs its venturous wajy Their's or the ocean's miserable prey. As on their neighbimrrng beach yon swallows stand, And wait for favouring winds...fled ; Fled from these shores, where guilt and famine reigrt, And cry'd, Ah ! hapless they who still remain ; Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose... | |
 | George Crabbe - Poetry, English - 1808 - 280 pages
...eager eye ; Which to their coast directs its vent'rous way, Their's or the ocean's miserable prey. As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand,...from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cry'd, Ah ! hapless they who still remain ; Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose greedy waves... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 280 pages
...eager eye ; Which to their coast directs its vent'rous way, Their's or the ocean's miserable prey. As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand,...from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cry'd, Ah ! hapless they who still remain ; Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose greedy waves... | |
 | George Crabbe - Poetry, English - 1808 - 276 pages
...eager eye ; Which to their coast directs its vent'rous way, Their's or the ocean's miserable prey. As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand,...fled ; Fled from these shores where guilt and famine reigft, And cry'd, Ah ! hapless they who still remain ; Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose... | |
 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1810 - 178 pages
...the ocean's, miserable prey. As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand, And wait for favourng winds to leave the land ; While still for flight the...from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cry'd, Ah ! hapless they who still remain ; Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose greedy waves... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1812 - 190 pages
...their coast directs its venf rous way, •.. , . 3 Theirs, or the ocean's, miserable prey. . • .I3.v As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand,...from, these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cry'd, Ah ! hapless they who still remain ; Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose greedy waves... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 306 pages
...eager eye ; Which to their coast directs its vent' rous way, Theirs, or the ocean's, miserable prey. As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand...the ready wing is spread : So waited I the favouring hoar, and fled ; Fled from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cry'd, Ah ! hapless they... | |
 | James Ford - English literature - 1818 - 430 pages
...eager eye ; Which to their coast directs its vent'rous way, Their's, or the ocean's miserable prey. As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand,...from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cry'd, Ah ! hapless they who still remain ; Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose greedy waves... | |
 | James Ford - English literature - 1818 - 432 pages
...Which to their coast directs its vent'rous way, Their's, or the ocean's miserable prey. As on then- neighbouring beach yon swallows stand, And wait for...leave the land ; While still for flight the ready wiug is spread : So waited I the favouring hour, and fled ; « Fled from these shores where guilt and... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 310 pages
...eager eye ; Which to their coast directs its vent'rous way, Theirs, or the ocean's, miserable prey. As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand...from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cry'd, Ah ! hapless they who still remain ; Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose greedy waves... | |
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