 | James Burnley - Emergency management - 1888 - 496 pages
...oft-quoted lines : — " Far in the bosom of the deep O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep, A rudely gem of changeful light Bound on the dusky brow of...seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his tim'rous sail." It would be impossible within our present limits to relate the history of all the famous... | |
 | David Porter Heap - Lighthouses - 1888 - 346 pages
...deep, O'er these wild shelves my wntch I keep, A ruddy дeт of chnngef ul light, Bound on tho diulcy brow of Night, The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail. In conclusion, it may be of interest to .state that this important structure contains 28,530 cubic... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy, James Riddell, George William Clark - English poetry - 1890 - 522 pages
...hast thon still some secret nest on the tree or billow ? SHELLEY. Inscription for a Lightltouse. AR in the bosom of the deep o'er these wild shelves my...lustre hail, and scorns to strike his timorous sail. SCOTт. Epitaph on a Mother and three Infants. ROM God they came, to God they went again ; no sin they... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1890 - 612 pages
...the Album, added these interesting lines." — STEVENSON'S Account of ike Bell Rock Lighthouse. 1824. FAR in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves...my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sai!. MR. KEMBLE'S FAREWELL ADDRESS, ON TAKING LEAVE OF THE EDINBURGH STAGE. These lines first appeared,... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - Periodicals - 1892 - 956 pages
...Walter Scott wrote in the Visitors' Album of the Bell Rock Light-House, is appropriate to them all. " Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves...hail ! ' And scorns to strike his timorous sail." It ends pretty flat, but we must not forget that they are Album verses. SCREW PILE LIGHT-HOUSES. Another... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - Periodicals - 1892 - 936 pages
...these wild shelves my watch I keep, A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of Night j The seaman bids my lustre ' ha.il !' And scorns to strike his timorous sail." • It ends pretty flat, but we must not forget that they are Album verses. SCREW, PILE LIGHT-HOUSES.... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1894 - 308 pages
...the Album of the Bell Rock Lighthouse, for Mr. Stevenson, grandfather of Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson. FAR in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves...lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail. THE BANNA- Written for the Bannatyne Club which was founded to reP"nt old gcots h;storica, and poeticai... | |
 | William Baker - English poetry - 1895 - 152 pages
...^apa? dKfj,rjv, \a/36vre<; ev /Sporot? crKifinovviav, 10 11 On a Visit to the Bell Rock Lighthouse Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves...lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail. SIR WALTER SCOTT. 12 An Invitation of the Day Come into the Tripos, Maud, For the dark old days have... | |
 | James M. M'Bain - Arbroath (Scotland) - 1897 - 554 pages
...remembrancer of his visit being the following lines which he then inscribed in the visitors' book : — " Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves...seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his tim'rous sail." Cardinal Beaton's connection with the Abbey has already been referred to. While his... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1899 - 450 pages
...hear a love-tale, And the youth it was told by was Allen-a-Dale! '39 THE LIGHTHOUSE SIR WALTER SCOTT fAR in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves...lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail. COUNTY GUY From QUENTIN DURWARD SIR WALTER SCOTT 7^1 H ! County Guy, the hour is nigh, ifSl The sun... | |
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Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night, The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous. sail. 
