 | American periodicals - 1839 - 584 pages
...the immensity of the scene before and around us. THE STEAMBOAT. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, ES tt . SSE how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling...flies before the roaring wind, Beneath her hissing lee. The morning spray, like sea-born flowers, With heaped and glistening bells, Falls round her fast,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...when it was proposed 10 break up the frigate Constitution, as unfit for service. THE STEAMBOAT. SSE how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling...flies before the roaring wind, Beneath her hissing lee. The morning spray, like sea-born flowers, With heap'd and glistening bells, Falls round her fast... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 pages
...moss-stains on the rock were new, Beheld thy glorious childhood, and rejoiced. THE STEAMBOAT. BY OW HOLMES. SEE how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling...flies before the roaring wind, Beneath her hissing lee. The morning spray, like sea-born flowers, With heap'd and glistening bells, Falls round her fast... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 280 pages
...moss-stains on the rock were new, Beheld thy glorious childhood, and rejoiced. THE STEAMBOAT. BY OW HOLMES. how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling...flies before the roaring wind, Beneath her hissing lee. The morning spray, like sea-born flowers, With heap'd and glistening bells, Falls round her fast... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...•Written when it was proposed tobrMk up the frigate Constitution, as unfit for gerviee. THE STEAMBOAT. SEE how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling...clinging sea, That flies before the roaring wind, B«neath her hissing lee. The morning spray, like sea-born flowers, With heap'd and glistening bells,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1845 - 538 pages
...Written whan It wns proposed to break up the frignte Constitution, as unfil for service. THE STEAMBOAT. SEE how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling waves, As, crashing o'er their cresterj heads, She bows her surly slaves ! With foam before and fire behind, She rends the clinging... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 pages
...-353 THE STEAMBOAT. BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SEE how yon flaming herald treads The high and rollmg waves, As crashing o'er their crested heads, She bows...flies before the roaring wind, Beneath her hissing lee. The morning spray like sea-born flowers, With heaped and glistening bells, Falls round her fast,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1850 - 310 pages
...the sea ; The mist grows dark, — the sun goes down,Dayhreaks, — and where are we? THE STEAMBOAT. SEE how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling...flies before the roaring wind, Beneath her hissing lee. The morning spray, like sea-born flowers, With heaped and glistening bells, Falls round her fast,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Medicine in literature - 1850 - 310 pages
...sea ; The mist grows dark, — the sun goes down,— Daybreaks, — and where are we ? THE STEAMBOAT. SEE how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling...flies before the roaring wind, Beneath her hissing lee. The morning spray, like sea-born flowers, With heaped and glistening bells, Falls round her fast,... | |
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THE STEAMBOAT SEE how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling waves, As, crashing o'er their crested heads, She bows her surly slaves ! With foam before and fire behind, She rends the clinging sea, That flies before the roaring wind Beneath her... 
