 | 1865 - 380 páginas
...slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So sweet the lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast — If chance his mate's shrill call he hear — And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1865 - 398 páginas
...slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So sweet the lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast — If chance his mate's shrill call he hear — And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 páginas
...voice he heard, He sighed and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1904 - 400 páginas
...scosse, e giu calossi a piombo, Tutto serrato nelle sacre penne, Come a suo nido fa lieto Colombo." " So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close...pinions to his breast, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nest." These " Stanze " were the first example of a happy... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 páginas
...voice he heard, He sigh'd, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high-poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear)... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 páginas
...voice he heard He sighed, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, 2 call he hear, And drops at once into her nest : — The noblest captain in the British fleet Alight... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1873 - 448 páginas
...slides swiftly through his glowing hands, Ar.d, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So sweet the lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast — If chance his mate's shrill call he hear — And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
 | Martha Le Baron Goddard - 1874 - 382 páginas
...voice he heard, He sighed and cast his eyes below ; The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. So the...pinions to his breast, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 760 páginas
...The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. 3 So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close...pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 páginas
...slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So sweet the lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast ( If chance his mate's shrill call he hear), And drops at once into her nest ; The noblest captain in the British fleet flight envy... | |
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The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands. And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air. Shuts close his pinions to his breast (If, chance, his mate's shrill call he hear), And drops at once into her nest.... 
