Then the Master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see! she stirs! She starts,— she moves,—... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5181851Full view - About this book
| John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, . Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see ! she stirs ! She starts, — she moves, — she seems to feel The...arms. And lo ! from the assembled crowd There rose a shout, prolonged and loud, That to the ocean seemed to say, " Take her, O bridegroom, old and gray... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American poetry - 1868 - 710 pages
...she stirs ! She starts — she moves — she seems to feel The thrill of life against her keel, ISAnd spurning -with her foot the ground, With one exulting,...arms ! And lo ! from the assembled crowd There rose a shout, prolonged and loud, That to the ocean seemed to say, Take her ! O bridegroom old and gray, Take... | |
| American Tract Society - American literature - 1868 - 172 pages
...below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs ; And see ! she stirs ! She starts, she moves, she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And spurning with her feet the ground, With one exulting joyous bound She leaps into the ocean's arms ! And lo ! from the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 252 pages
...helow, The sonnd of hammers, hlow on hlow. Knoeking away the shores and spnrs. And see! she stirs! She starts,— she moves,— she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel. And. spnrning with her foot the gronnd, With one exnlting, loyons honnd, She leaps into the oeean's arms... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see ! she stirs I She starts — she moves — she seems to feel The thrill of life against her keel, IS* And spuming with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps... | |
| Archibald Hamilton Bryce - English literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see ! she stirs ! She starts,— she moves, — she seems to feel The...! And, lo ! from the assembled crowd There rose a shout, prolonged and loud, That to the ocean seemed to say, " Take her, O bridegroom, old and grey... | |
| Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...sea. Then the master, With a gesture of command, And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow...arms. And lo! from the assembled crowd There rose a shout, prolonged and loud, That to the ocean seemed to say, " Take her, O bridegroom, old and gray... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 pages
...below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see ! she stirs ! She starts, — she moves, — she seems to feel The...arms ! And lo ! from the assembled crowd There rose a shout, prolonged and loud, That to the ocean seemed to say, — "Take her, O bridegroom, old and gray,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see ! she stirs ! She starts ! she moves ! she seems to feel The thrill...exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms ! 4. FROM ALEXANDER'S FEAST. <\Dryden. Slow Time. — Orotund Quality. — Middle Pitch, changing to... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1884 - 996 pages
...stars-and-stripes flung to the breeze from her mizzen-peak. Carefully the old fellow launches her. " She seems to feel the thrill of life along her keel," and starts off on a wind with every stitch of canvas drawing. Firemen, machinists, and stokers" are refused... | |
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