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... Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt - Page 91by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 287 lehteFull view - About this book
| John McCosh - 1835 - 100 lehte
...and had them safely lodged in our tent. 67 CHAPTER IV. " Once more upon the waters ! Yet once mote ! 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 ; Though the strained mast should quiver... | |
| Flexible Grummett - 1835 - 244 lehte
...ship felt that she was throned on her own peculiar element. . " Once more upon the waters, but oiice more, And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider." But there were some who looked delightedly upon the swelling sails, for their light frames were 'unequal... | |
| 1836 - 884 lehte
...my poor mother to tie I my night-cap and to tuck me in. Ossian, or Byron, I forget which, says : " Once more upon the waters, yet once more, and the...waves bound beneath me as a steed that knows his rider :" but I found a vast difference between mounting the speckled waves and riding my own pretty little... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 396 lehte
...for " seas " the clear, noble thought in one of the Cantos of Childe Harold has been produced : — " Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the...bound beneath me, as a steed That knows his rider." rest from my own observation. Eemember, I never meant to conceal this at all, and have only not stated... | |
| George Home - 1837 - 364 lehte
...as if she felt a sympathy in my overworked feelings, darted with renewed speed through the water. " Once more upon the waters, yet once more, And the...be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead, Though the strained mast should quiver like a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale ; Still must... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 lehte
...not ; but the hour fs gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.(2) II. Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the...bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. (3) Welcome to the roar! Swift be their guidance, wlieresoe'er it lead! Though the strain'd mast should... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 356 lehte
...Rushton, the "yeoman" and "page" of Canto 1. ; his physician, Dr. Polidori ; and a Swiss valet.] II. Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the...bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. 1 "Welcome to the roar ! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain'd mast should... | |
| Michael Scott - 1837 - 330 lehte
...covered with floating prisms. — " Hurrah — hurrah — we are once more in blue water.1" CHAPTER IV. " Once more upon the waters. Yet once more, And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows its rider." CniLDE HAROLD. WE bowled along for half an hour, keeping a bright look-out for the frigate,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 lehte
...the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad •line eye.(2) II. Овес more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed Thai knows his rider. (3) Welcome to the roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead! Though... | |
| Caroline Howard Gilman - 1838 - 456 lehte
...Letters from Distinguished Foreigners, - * 391 NOTES OF A NORTHERN EXCURSION. NORFOLK, 4priZ 24, 1836. " Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the...bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider." THE sea, however, was not unto me " like a horse that knows its rider," but rather like an old mule... | |
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