 Welcome to their roar ! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam to sail...  Wild Sports in Europe, Asia and Africa ... - Pàgina 32per Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier - 1846 - 224 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pàgines
...contained in the second ctanza of this canto, where Lord Byron dwells on his embarkation from England. " Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the...bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider." Chapman, in his Kyron's Conspiracy •, (the coincidence of the name is singular), has this comparison... | |
 | 1816 - 692 pàgines
...shores could grieve or glad mine eye. The winds lift up tUeir voices: 1 depart, " Once more upon tlie waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.' Welcome, to their roar! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, "* """Arid the rent canvas fluttering... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1817 - 606 pàgines
...thus repeating aloud to the whistling cessarily compelled to be brief. I will however do my utmost. 1 Once more upon the waters, yet once more ! And the...waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider !' Resuming the poetical strain, which seems just now very strangely to have possessed us, '------... | |
 | 1817 - 590 pàgines
...waters! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome, to their roar ! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead...strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's... | |
 | 1858 - 862 pàgines
...on the morrow of our leaving Shanghai, saw dear mother ocean clad in her glorious robes of blue ! " Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath us, as a steed That knows Lis rider." After months — nay, more than a year — pothering about in... | |
 | 1818 - 896 pàgines
...I know not; but the hour's gone by, j When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye. "Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the...beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome, to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain'd mast should quiver US... | |
 | 1818 - 904 pàgines
...gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye. "Once more npon the waters I yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome, to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it kad! Though the straiu'd mast should quiver as... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pàgines
...know not; but the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye. II. Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the...beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome, to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pàgines
...know not ; but the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye. II. Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the...beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome, to their roar ! •s. Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead I Though the strain'd mast should quiver... | |
 | 1832 - 614 pàgines
...Persai of .4ischylus suggested a celebrated passage in ' Childe Harold :'— ivroy.' — Persic. 71. ' Once more upon the waters, yet once more, And the waves bound beneath me like a steed That knows his lider.' — Canto i. " We might also hint at the far more striking similarity... | |
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