 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1799 - 300 pages
...down thine ebbing tide The unlaboured boat falls rapidly along,. The solitary helms-man sits to guide And sings an idle song. Now o'er the rocks, that lay So silent late, the shallow current roars ; Fast flow thy waters on their sea-ward way 100 Avon ! I gaze and know The wisdom emblemed... | |
 | Robert Southey - Poetry - 1805 - 201 pages
...down thine ebbing tide The unlaboured boat falls rapidly along ; The solitary helms-man sits to guide And sings an idle song. Now o'er the rocks, that lay So silent late, the shallow current roars ; Fast flow thy waters on their sea-ward way 170 Avon ! I gaze and know The wisdom emblemed... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1823
...down thine ebbing tide The unlabour'd boat falls rapidly along ; The solitary helms-man sits to guide, And sings an idle song. Now o'er the rocks that lay So silent late, the shallow current roars ; Fast flow thy waters on their sea-ward way Through wider-spreading shores. Avon ! I... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838
...down thine ebbing tide The unlabour'd boat falls rapidly along ; The solitary helmsman sits to guide, And sings an idle song. Now o'er the rocks that lay So silent late the shallow current roars ; Fast flow thy waters on their sea-ward way, Through wider-spreading shores. Avon !... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838
...down thine ehbing tide The unlahour'd hoat falls rapidly along ; The solitary helmsman sits to guide, And sings an idle song. Now o'er the rocks that lay So silent late the shallow current roars ; Fast flow thy waters on their sea- ward way, Through wider-spreading shores. Avon !... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 810 pages
...down thine ebbing tide The unlabor'd boat falls rapidly along ; The solitary helmsman «its to guide, And sings an idle song. Now o'er the rocks that lay So silent late, the shallow current roan ; Fast flow thy waters on their seaward way Through wider-spreading shores. Avon ! I gaze... | |
 | Bennett George Johns - English poetry - 1847 - 186 pages
...thine ebbing tide The unlabour'd boat glides rapidly along ;] The solitary helmsman sits to guide, And sings an idle song. Now o'er the rocks that lay So silent late, the shallow current roars ; Fast flow thy waters on their seaward way, Through wider-spreading shores. Avon ! I... | |
 | Bennett George Johns - English poetry - 1847 - 186 pages
...thine ebbing tide The unlabour'd boat glides rapidly along ;] The solitary helmsman sits to guide, And sings an idle song. Now o'er the rocks that lay So silent late, the shallow current roars ; Fast flow thy waters on their seaward way, Through wider-spreading shores. Avon ! I... | |
 | England - 1851
...labouring long Between thy winding shores. " Now down thine ebbing tide Tb« unlibour'd boat falls rapidly along; The solitary helmsman sits to gnide, And sings an idle song." On turning to the edition that lies bffore us of his collected poems, wo find that all these, and some... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 399 pages
...down thine ebbing tide The unlabour'd boat falls rapidly along; The solitary helmsman sits to guide, And sings an idle song. Now o'er the rocks that lay So silent late the shallow current roars; Fast flow thy waters on their sea-ward way, Through wider-spreading shores. Avon ! I... | |
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