 Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles, On Behring's rocks, or Greenland's naked isles : Cold on his midnight watch the breezes blow, From wastes that slumber in eternal snow ; And waft, across the waves' tumultuous roar, The wolf's long howl...  The Works of Charles Sumner - Page 236by Charles Sumner - 1877Full view - About this book
 | England - 1839 - 870 pages
...Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world. " Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer unites, On Behring's rocks, or Greenland's naked isles : Cold on his midnight watch the breeaet blow, From wastes that slumber in eternal snow: And waft across the wave's tumultuous roar... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1821 - 176 pages
...meteor-standard to the winds unfurl'd, Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world ! Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles. On Behring's rocks, or Greenland's naked isles : Col d on his midnight watch the breezes blow, Fr om wastes that slumber in eternal snow : And waft,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1821 - 254 pages
...meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd, Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world. GO Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles, On Behring's rocks, or Greenland's naked islesi Gold on his midnight watch the hreezes hlow, From wastes that slumher in eternal snow i And... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Best books - 1824 - 982 pages
...lines — and apply them to Captain Parry — as you suppose him to be ploughing the northern ocean : Cold on his midnight watch the breezes blow From wastes that slumber in ETERNAL SNOW. And again : And waft, across the wave's tumultuous roar, The wolf's long howl from Oonolaska'a shore.t... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Best books - 1825 - 514 pages
...apply them to Captain Parry— as you suppose him to be ploughing the northern ocean : Cold on big midnight watch the breezes blow From wastes that slumber in ETERNAL SNOW. And again And waft, across the wave's tumultuous roar, The wolfs long howl from Oonolaska's shore.f But... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...meteor standard to the winds unfurl 'd, Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world. 23 Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles, On Behring's...roar, The wolfs long howl from Oonalaska's shore. Poor child of danger, nursling of the storm, Sad are the woes that wreck thy manly form ! Rocks, waves,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1828 - 260 pages
...of clouds o'er half the world ! Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles On Behring's rt>cks, or Greenland's naked isles : Cold on his midnight...that slumber in eternal snow ; And waft, across the wave's tumultuous roar, The wolfs long howl from Oonalaska's shore. Poor child of danger, nursling... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...half the world ! Now far he sweeps, where scarce a sum• mcr smiles, On Behring's rorks,orGreenland's naked isles: Cold on his midnight- watch the breezes...that slumber in eternal snow : And waft, across the wave's tumultuous roar, The wolf's long howl from Onalaska's shore. Poor child of danger, nursling... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...meteor-standard to the winds iinfurTd, Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world ! Now fjr he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles On Behring's...that slumber in eternal snow ; And waft, across the wave's tumultuous roar, The wolfs tony howl from OonaUska's shore. Poor child of danger, nursling of... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1830 - 248 pages
...meteor standard to the winds unfurled, Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world. Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles, On Behring's...roar, The wolfs long howl from Oonalaska's shore. Poor child of danger, nursling of the storm, Sad are the woes that wreck thy manly form ! Rocks, waves,... | |
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