 The rapids arc near and the daylight's past. Why should we yet our sail unfurl? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl, But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh, sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The rapids...  The Works of Thomas Moore: Epistles, odes, and other poems - Page 267by Thomas Moore - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 pages
...Blow, breezes, blow ! the stream runs fast, A The rapids are near, and the daylight's past ! Utawa's tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over...surges soon. Saint of this green isle, hear our prayers — O, grant us cool heavens and favoring airs ! Blow, breezes, blow ! the stream runs fast, The rapids... | |
 | American poetry - 1892 - 324 pages
...Blow, breezes, blow ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight 's past. Utawa's tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over...hear our prayers, — Oh, grant us cool heavens and favoring airs ! Blow, hreezes, blow ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight 's... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 464 pages
...Likes we were about to float over unmeasured zones of earth, bound on unimaginable adventures, — " Saint of this green isle ! hear our prayers, Oh, grant us cool heavens and favoring airs I " About nine o'clock we reached the river, and ran our boat into a natural haven between... | |
 | Chautauquas - 1894 - 790 pages
...! Blow, breezes, blow ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight 's past! Utawa's tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over...soon. Saint of this green isle, hear our prayers,— O, grant us cool heavens and favoring airs ! Blow, breezes, blow ! the stream runs fast, The rapids... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1894 - 460 pages
...lakes we were about to float over unmeasured zones of earth, bound on unimaginable adventures, — " Saint of this green isle! hear our prayers, Oh, grant us cool heavens and favoring airs! " About nine o'clock we reached the river, and ran our boat into a natural haven between... | |
 | Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1895 - 874 pages
...rest our weary oar. blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight "s past. Utawas' tide ! this trembling moon Shall see...! hear our prayers, Oh, grant us cool heavens and favoring airs. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast The Rapids are near and the daylight : ii... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - Readers - 1896 - 536 pages
...! Blow, breezes, blow! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past. Utawa's tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over...hear our prayers— Oh, grant us cool heavens and favoring airs ! Blow, breezes, blow ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's... | |
 | father Alexis de Barbezieux - Ottawa (Canada : Diocese) - 1897 - 672 pages
...and the daylight's past ! • ^ Utawas' tide, this trembling moon Shall see us float over thy surge soon, Saint of this green Isle ! hear our prayers,...! grant us cool heavens and favouring airs. Blow, breeze, blow, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near, and the daylight's past ! Nous ne terminerons... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1917 - 456 pages
...oar. Blow, breezes, blow ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past. Utawa's tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over...hear our prayers, — Oh, grant us cool heavens and favoring airs ! Blow, breezes, blow ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1899 - 450 pages
...oar. Blow, breezes, blow! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past. Utawa's tide! this trembling moon Shall see us float over...hear our prayers, — Oh, grant us cool heavens and favoring airs ! Blow, breezes, blow! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's... | |
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