 | LIEUT SHERARD OSBORN - 1852 - 330 pages
...snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen ; Nor shapes of men, or beasts we ken, The ice was all between. With sloping masts, and dipping prow, As who pursued...The ship drove fast — loud roared the blast. And northward aye we fled — Until we all suddenly hauled-in for the land of Greenland,, in order to visit... | |
 | Sherard Osborn - Arctic regions - 1852 - 228 pages
...snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen ; Nor shapes of men, or beasts we ken, The ice was all between. With sloping masts, and dipping prow, As who pursued...The ship drove fast — loud roared the blast, And northward aye we fled — Until we all suddenly hauled-in for the land of Greenland, in order to visit... | |
 | Frederic John Mouat - Climatology - 1852 - 160 pages
...and he Was tyrannous and strong : He struck with his o'ertaking winds, And chased UB South along." " With sloping masts, and dipping prow, As who pursued...forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roar'd the blast And Southward aye we fled." On, on we sped until at noon a faint, bluish, dwarfed... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1853 - 728 pages
...tyrannous and strong : He struck with his o'ertaking wings, ..'••' ^ And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued...came floating by, As green as emerald. And through the drifts the snowy clifU ' • >' Did send a dismal sheen : Nor shapes of men nor beast we ken—... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 712 pages
...came, and he Was tyrannous and strong : He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued...loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. 231 And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald. And through the drifts the snowy clifts... | |
 | William Kennedy - Arctic regions - 1853 - 252 pages
...sheen ; Nor shapes of men or beasts we ken, The ice was all between. With sloping masts and dripping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow, Still treads...his foe, And forward bends his head. The ship drove past — loud roared the blast, And northward aye we fled." On Tuesday the 8th July, we were three-fourths... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...inTT - , ,lt. . p. . ward the He struck with his o ertakmg wmgs, louihpoit. And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued...came floating by, As green as emerald. And through the drifts the snowy clifts ™er,d°or°f Did send a dismal sheen ; '^"1'a. Nor shapes of men nor... | |
 | Melchior Yvan - Voyages and travels - 1854 - 386 pages
...but the Mariner continueth hia tale. The ship drawn by a storm toward the south pole. APPENDIX. 309 With sloping masts, and dipping prow, As who pursued...mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold ; And ice, mast high, came floating by, As green as emerald. And through the drifts, the snowy clifts * Did send... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...came, and he Was tyrannous and strong : He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued...southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snovr, And it grew wondrous cold : And ice, most high, came floating by, As green as emerald. And through... | |
 | Sherard Osborn - Arctic regions - 1854 - 232 pages
...snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen ; Nor shapes of men, or beasts we ken, The ice was all between. With sloping masts, and dipping prow, As who pursued...The ship drove fast — loud roared the blast, And northward aye we fled — Until we all suddenly hauled-in for the land of Greenland, in order to visit... | |
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And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he Was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends... 
