 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about ; oflneuims crew »re mAnd to and fro, and Tin- lightning fell with never a jag, — A river steep and wide. The loud wind never reached the ship,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...into life ! And a hundred fire-flags sheen ; To and fro they were hurried about ! And to and fro, and let virtue faith maintain : All force but theirs is impious, weak, and vain load, And the sails did sigh like sedge ; And the rain ponr'd down from one black cloud The moon was... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1874 - 396 pages
...smallest details are true to fact, the other of the ship sailing quietly, which I throw together : And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails...some high crag The lightning fell with never a jag, And the other : It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1875 - 246 pages
...into life ! Aud a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between. " And the...down from one black cloud, The Moon was at its edge. Like waters shot from some high crag, The lightning fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide.... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...into life I And a hundred flre-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about I And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between. And the...roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge ; [cloud ; And the rain pour'd down from one black The Moon was at its edge. The thick black clond... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 860 pages
...into life ! And a hundred fire-flags sheen ; To and fro they were hurried about ! And to and fro, and ppear to the reader, to a person in my situation the...compassionate landlady with two of the four brass buttons higli crag, The lightning fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide. 'The loud wind never reached... | |
 | Phrenology - 1876 - 1000 pages
...into life, And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about ; And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between. And the...sigh like sedge : And the rain poured down from one bhick cloud, The moon was at its edge. The thick black cloud was cleft, and still The inoon was at... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...into life ! And a hundred fire-Hags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about ! And to and fro, and G ; He heareth •ounde and eaeth atraDce alt; hti COLERIDGE. And the rain pour'd down from one black... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...is a conception somewhat s:milar- i n the general outline in Coleridge's Ancient Mariner (322-6) : 'The thick black cloud was cleft, and still The Moon...high crag, The lightning fell with never a jag, A rirer steep and wide.' otice the alliterationhere, and find many other instances in the poem. Ift.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 314 pages
...And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about! And to and fro, and in and oat, The wan stars danced between. And the coming wind...sigh like sedge ; And the rain poured down from one blacl cloud ; The moon was at its edge. The thick black clond was cleft, and still The moon was at... | |
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And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge; And the rain poured down from one black cloud; The Moon was as its edge. The thick black cloud was cleft, and still The Moon was at its side: Like waters shot from some high crag,... 
