 Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the...  Essays and Reviews - Page 292by Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier - 1844 - 356 pages
...Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas, fluttering, stem the gale, Still must I on; for I am as a weed Flung from the rock,...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." BYRON. WE left the little Iris floating quietly at rest on the now smooth and tranquil waters of False... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from some rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. ******** Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell, Then shrieked the timid — and stood still the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1070 pages
...mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for 1 am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam,...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. III. In my youth's summer I did sing of one, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind j Again I seize... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the guie, Still must I on ; fur ait ils lu haine au doge son père, on brcatfi prevail. III. In my youth's summer I did sing of one, The wandering outlaw of his own dark... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 690 pages
...rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, OH Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. " In my youth's summer, I did sing of One, The waud'ring outlaw of his own dark mind ; Again I seize... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 886 pages
...Though the strained mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale,1 Still s all rich with blossom 'd trees. And Reids which...* should see With double joy wert thou with me. m. In my youth's summer I did sing of One, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind ; Again I seize... | |
 | 1855 - 492 pages
...instantaneous production of this third canto of "Childe Harold." " I am as a weed, Flung from the rocks on Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail." Rejecting a biblic revelation of man and his destiny, Byron gave himself up to a belief in a dark and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 pages
...Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock,...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. III. In my youth's summer I did sing of One, The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind ; Again I seize... | |
 | Daniel Wise - 1851 - 294 pages
...for good, and not for evil ? Say not of yourself, in careless, self-abandonment to circumstances, " I am as a weed Flung from the rock, on ocean's foam...the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.' But take your stand before the world, with an invincible determination — with " An earnest purpose... | |
 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 504 pages
...edificare; un solo basta per distruggere tutto." The lines in the beginning of the third canto, — "For I am as a weed Flung from the rock, on ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, or tempests breath prevail,"— strongly resemble Horace's, "Quo me cunqne raplt, tempestas deferor... | |
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