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 | Otis Henry Tiffany - English literature - 1883 - 932 pages
...vain, Jean ; We'll meet, an' ay1 be fain. In the Land o' the Leal. AS SHIPS BECALMED. ARTHUR H. CLOUOH. ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping,...dawn of day Are scarce long leagues apart descried. TWhen fell the night, up sprang the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied ; Nor dreamt but... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1884 - 654 pages
...pipe too sore, and tired his thioat.' EDITOR. 1 Westminster Review, October 1869. QUA CURSUM VENTUS. 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... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1885 - 370 pages
...vain, Except that rule that none complain ? 0 tell me, friends that are no more ! Qua cursum ventus. 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, E'en so — but why the tale reveal Of... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 668 pages
...of the shorter poems appearing in a volume called Ambarvalia in the next year.] QUA CURSUM VENTUS. As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail at dawn of day Arescarce longleagues apart descried ; When fell the night, upsprung the breeze, And all the darkling... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 224 pages
...wandering is it That the world was made so wide. Goethe: Carlyle's Translation. QUA CURSUAI VENTUS. 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... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1886 - 204 pages
...Deliverance, Promise, Course ! Time-tired souls salute thee from the shore. BKOWNLEE BROWN QUA CURSUM VENTUS. AS ships, becalmed at eve, that lay •^ *• With...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... | |
 | Henry Fitz Randolph - Ballads, English - 1887 - 344 pages
...front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. QUA CURSUM VENTUS. 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, E'en so — but why the tale reveal Of... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - Poetry, Modern - 1888 - 482 pages
...vain, Except that rule that none complain ? O tell me, friends that are no more ! QUA CURSUM VENTUS. 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... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - English literature - 1888 - 658 pages
...it, Eying through eddying green waters the green-tinting floor underneath them, QUA CURSUM VENTUS. 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... | |
 | William Andrews - English poetry - 1888 - 316 pages
...life together see, Some true result will yet appear Of what we are, together, here. QUA CURSUM VENTUS. As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping,...sail at dawn of day Are scarce long leagues apart descriejj ; When fell the night, upsprung the breeze, And all the darkling hours they plied, Nor dreamt... | |
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