| Robert Southey - 1853 - 322 pages
...thine ebbing tide The unlabour'd boat falls rapidly along ; The solitary helm's-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 seaward way Through wider-spreading shores. Avon ! I... | |
| Robert Southey - 1854 - 530 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 Through wider-spreading shores. Avon ! I... | |
| Robert Southey - Christian saints - 1858 - 534 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 Through wider-spreading shores. , Avon !... | |
| Robert Southey - 1860 - 278 pages
...down thine ebbing tide The unlabored 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 seaward way, Through wider-spreading shores. Avon ! I... | |
| Popular poetry - English poetry - 1862 - 246 pages
...down thine ebbing tide The uulabour'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... | |
| Henry Twells - 1864 - 318 pages
...down thine ebbing tide The unlabour'd boat falls rapidly along ; A 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... | |
| Ocean lays - 1864 - 400 pages
...down thine ebbing tide The unlaboured 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 seaward way Through wider-spreading shores. Avon ! I... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1868 - 328 pages
...them labonring long Between thy winding shores. Now down thine ebbing tide The nnlabonr'd boat falls rapidly along ; The solitary helmsman sits to gnide,...shallow cnrrent roars ; Fast flow thy waters on their sea-ward way, Throngh wider-spreading shores. Avon ! I gaze and know The lesson emblem'd in thy varying... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...down thine ebbing tide The unlabored boat falls rapidly along ; The solitary helmsman sits to guide, hat gives them back their fathers' heritage ; Fur foreign anus and aid they fo current roars ; Fast flow thy waters on their seaward way, Through wider-spreading shores. Avon, I... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...down thine ebbing tide The unlabored 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, Uie shallow current roars; Fast How thy waters on their seaward way Through wider-spreading shores.... | |
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