 | Charles Henry Wilson - English ballads and songs - 1803 - 228 pages
...voice he heard, He sigh'd, and cast his eyes below. The cord slides swiftly thro' his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So...pinions to his breast, (If, chance, his mate's shrill note he hear) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
 | Goldfinch - 1805 - 276 pages
...flies swiftly through his glowing hands) •V> id quick as lightnmg on the deck he stands. £ 2 So So the sweet lark, high pois'd in air, Shuts close his pinions to his Beast, If chance his mate's shrill c;ill he hear, And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain... | |
 | Select collection - 1806 - 322 pages
...voice he heard, He sigh'd, and cast his eyes below. The cords slide swiftly thro' his glowing hands ; And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So...pinions to his breast, If, chance, his mate's shrill voice he hear, He drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
 | George Ashburner - 1807 - 238 pages
...well-known voice he heard, He sigh'd, and cast his eyes below. The cord slides swiftly through his glowing And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So...pinions to his breast, ('If, chance, his mate's shrill note he hear) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy... | |
 | Vincent Bourne - 1808 - 300 pages
...and cast his eyes below. The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And (quick as lightuing) on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high pois'd...his pinions to his breast, (If, chance, his mate's sin-ill note he hear) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet, Might... | |
 | Vincent Bourne - English poetry - 1808 - 398 pages
...Protinus, ut vocem bene notam audivit, ad infra Praemisit gemitum, nee piger ipse sequi : III. So fhe sweet lark, high pois'd in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, (If, chance, his mate's shrill note he hear) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in fhe British fleet, Might envy... | |
 | Vincent Bourne - 1808 - 228 pages
...not (which has happened to many old men) outlive all my friends. III. So the sweet lark, high pois'cl in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, (If, chance, his mate's shrill note he hear) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet, Might envy... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 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-pois'd in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear)... | |
 | John Aikin, Robert Harding Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 508 pages
...voice he heard, He sigh'd and cast his eyes below ; The cord glides swiftly thro' his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. So the...mate's shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nes?. The noblest captain in the British fleet* Might envy William's lips those kisses sweet. O Susan,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 596 pages
...heard, He s^gh'd, ami cast his eyes below : The cord slides s-л iftly thro. igh his glow-ins; hands, And (quick as lightning.') on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high pois'd in air, Shots close his pinions to his breast, (If cham-c his mate's shrill-call he hear) And drops at once... | |
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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. 
