 The rudder which creaks mid the billowy roar ; He hears the hoarse moan of the spray-driving blast, And its funeral wail through the shrouds of the mast. The stars of far Europe have sunk from the skies, And the great Southern Cross meets his terrified...  The Dublin university magazine - Page 305by University magazine - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Stephen J. Meany - 1849 - 416 pages
...her fate and fear their own the same. THREE DAYS OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. FROM CASSIMffi DELAVIGNE. " BACK to Europe, again, let our sails be unfurled!"...length the slow dawn, softly streaking the night, Illumes the dark dome with its beautiful light, " Columbus! 'tis day, and the darkness hath past!"... | |
 | Denis Florence MacCarthy - English poetry - 1850 - 414 pages
...Vast, As if he beheld the bright region at last. He sails, and the dawn, the first day, quickly leads: He sails, till the sun, downward sinking from view,...length the slow dawn, softly streaking the night, Illumes the dark dome with its beautiful light, " Columbus! 'tis day, and the darkness hath past!"... | |
 | Denis Florence MacCarthy - English poetry - 1850 - 408 pages
...blue. On, onward he sails, while in vain o'er the lee Down plunges the lead through the fathomless seal The pilot, in silence, leans mournfully o'er The rudder,...length the slow dawn, softly streaking the night, Illumes the dark dome with its beautiful light, " Columbus ! 'tis day, and the darkness hath past!"... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...the night ; — On, onward he sails, while in vain o'er the lee The lead is plunged down through a fathomless sea. The pilot, in silence, leans mournfully o'er The rudder which creaks mid the billowy roar ; He hears the hoarse moan of the spray-driving blast, And its funeral wail through the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...the night ; — On, onward he sails, while in vain o'er the lee * The lead is plunged down through a fathomless sea. The pilot, in silence, leans mournfully o'er The rudder which creaks mid the billowy roar ; He hears the hoarse moan of the spray-driving blast, And its funeral wail through the... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...Hides the sea and the sky with their limitless blueOn, onward he sails, while in vain o'er the lea, Down plunges the lead through the fathomless sea !...past, And the funeral wail of the wind-stricken mast : And the stars of far Europe have fled from the skies, And the " Cross of the South" meets his terrified... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...than the night; — On, onward he sails, while in vain o'er the lee The lead is plunged down through a fathomless sea. The pilot, in silence, leans mournfully o'er The rudder which creaks mid the billowy roar ; He hears the hoarse moan of the spray-driving blast, And its funeral wail through the... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 452 pages
...the lea, Down plunges the lead through the fathomless sea ! THEEE DAYS OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. 23 The pilot in silence leans mournfully o'er The rudder,...past, And the funeral wail of the wind-stricken mast : And the stars of far Europe have fled from the skies, And the " Cross of the South" meets his terrified... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - Elocution - 1869 - 456 pages
...On, onward he sails, while in vain o'er the lee The lead is plunged down through a fathomless sea. 2. The pilot, in silence, leans mournfully o'er The rudder which creaks mid the billowy roar : He hears the hoarse moan of the spray-driving blast, And its funeral wail through the... | |
 | Readers - 1872 - 232 pages
...the night ; — On, onward he sails, while in vain o'er the lee The lead is plunged down through a fathomless sea. The pilot, in silence, leans mournfully o'er The rudder, which creaks 'mid the billowy roar ; He hears the hoarse moan of the spray-driving blast, And its funeral-wail through the... | |
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