 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...Rock'd with the billow to and fro, Soon as her well-known voice he heard So the sweet lark, high poised in air, • Shuts close his pinions to his breast...captain in the British fleet Might envy William's lip those kisses sweet. ' O Susan, Susan, lovely dear, My vows shall ever true remain; Let me kiss... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...through his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, If...captain in the British fleet Might envy William's lip those kisses sweet. " O Susan, Susan, lovely dear, My vows shall ever true remain ; Let me kiss... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So sweet the lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast —...captain in the British fleet Might envy William's lip those kisses sweet. " 0 Susan, Susan, lovely dear, My vows shall ever true remain ; Let me kiss... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. 4. So the sweet lark, high-poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, (If...captain in the British fleet Might envy William's lip those kisses sweet. " O Susan, Susan, lovely dear, My vows shall ever true remain ; Let me kiss... | |
 | 1863 - 478 pages
...fro, The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear) And drops...captain in the British fleet Might envy William's lip those kisses sweet. " O Susan, Susan, lovely dear, My vows shall ever true remain ; Let me kiss... | |
 | 1863 - 362 pages
...*SB^ft ^C-*|^ii'-j*§i - .». in air, , to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he bear) t And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy William's lip those kisses sweet. " O Susan, Susan, lovely dear, My vows shall ever true remain ; Let me kiss... | |
 | George Harley Kirk - 1863 - 240 pages
...Tutto sf rrato nolle sacre penne, Come a suo nido la lieto Colombo". " So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast; If chance his mate's shrill call to hear, And drops at once into her nest". Politian is much resembled by Gray in descriptive poetry,... | |
 | Charles Dibdin - 1864 - 412 pages
...sails among your crew. William, who high upon the yard Rock'd with the billows to and fro, Soon as her well-known voice he heard, So the sweet lark,...into her nest, The noblest captain in the British flee" Might envy William's lips those kisses sweet. O Susan, Susan, lovely dear! My vows shall ever... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1864 - 780 pages
...Tutto serrato nelle sacre penne, Come a suo nido fa lieto Colombo." " So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, If...shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nest." These " Stanze" were the first example of a happy cultivation of Italian verse in the fifteenth century.... | |
 | 1865 - 380 pages
...through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So sweet the lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast —...captain in the British fleet Might envy William's lip those kisses sweet. " 0 Susan, Susan, lovely dear ! My vows shall ever true remain ; Let me kiss... | |
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So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nest : — The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy William's lip those kisses sweet. 
