 | Douglas Jerrold - 1854 - 304 pages
...voice he heard He sigh'd and cast his eyes below ; The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And (quick as light'ning) on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high-pois'd in air, Shuts close his pinions to his bresst, The noblest captain in the British fleet,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1856 - 754 pages
...Tutto serrate 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.... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1857 - 758 pages
...Tutto serrato nelle sacre penne, Come a suo nido fa lieto colombo." " So the swnet 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.... | |
 | 1857 - 280 pages
...voice he heard, He sighed, and cast his eyes below ; The cord glides swiftly 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, chance, his mate's shrill call he hears,)... | |
 | J. C. - 1860 - 196 pages
...glowing hands. And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. •A .' So the sweet lark, high (wised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hcar,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy William's... | |
 | J. C. - 1860 - 218 pages
...voice he heard. He sigh'd, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly 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 chance his mate's shrill call he hear,) And... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...voice he heard, He sighed, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly 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 chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 1863 - 438 pages
...voice he heard lie sigh'd, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly 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 chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And... | |
 | Charles Dibdin - 1864 - 412 pages
...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, high pois'd in air, Shuts close...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... | |
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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. 
