 | Royalist - 1852 - 278 pages
...LONG TRIAL, AND LAST REWARD. CHAPTER I. WILMOT'S VOYAGE WITH RUPERT, AND THE WRECK OF THE ADMIRAL. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...billows' foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! These are our realms, no limit to their sway; Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. BYRON'S CORSAIR.... | |
 | Mary Jane Windle - 1852 - 360 pages
...the horizon's rim, And though to freer skies 1 flee, My heart swells, and my eyes are dim!" WILLIS. " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home. These are our realms, no limits to their sway, • Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey." BYHON.... | |
 | 1914 - 728 pages
...oversea, are now doing their best to defend. Let me remind Mr. Collings of Byron's stirring lines : Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our Empire, and behold our Home. If Mr. Collings's creed be the true one, what becomes of our Empire Home? Does he suppose that destiny... | |
 | 1871 - 1156 pages
...horizon, and acknowledge how beautifully truthful are the following lines of Byron : — " O'er the deep waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless,...free : Far as the breeze can bear the billows' foam, Surrey our empire, and behold our home !" " Muy bueno — muy bueno, Señor," replied Francisco ; "... | |
 | Lia Noêmia Rodrigues Correia Raitt - 1983 - 168 pages
...Poet (London, 1966), p. 27. between lines of the second stanza and the opening verses of The Corsair: O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as umbounded [sic] as our souls are free. 16 Another allusion to Byron is made by Garrett in his notes... | |
 | Bernard G. Beatty, Vincent Newey - 1988 - 308 pages
...Nothing could be further from the reflective pause of satiric couplets than The Corsair. Far as thc breeze can bear, the billows foam; Survey our empire and behold our home! (I.3-4) (almost) starts the poem, with the song of the Greek pirates. The balance of the syntax and... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1990 - 566 pages
...left. His arrival was most opportune, for, in another minute, the barge left the rock. Chapter XIX "O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...foam, Survey our empire and behold our home!" Byron, The Corsair, Ii 1-4. Q NE is never fully aware of the extent of the movement that agitates the bosom... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
..."— Durs. I. " O'EB the glad waters of the dark bine sea, Oar thoughts as boundless, aud our souls as Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home I These are our realms, no limits to their eway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...BYRON. Canto the First' ' nessun maggior dolore, Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria, ' DANTE. 'O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts...billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! These are our realms, no limits to their sway Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. I Ours the wild... | |
 | Regina Hewitt - 1997 - 254 pages
...of view of the pirate band, indicates that the pirates perceive themselves as a coherent community: O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea Our thoughts...billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home! These are our realms, no limits to their sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. (ll. 1-6)... | |
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O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! 
