The Works of the English Poets, Volume 26H. Baldwin, 1779 - 261 pages |
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Page 224
... waves with flower heavings creep , And a dead calm benumbs the lazy deep . As when the winter's potent breath constrains The Scythian Euxine in her icy chains ; No more the Bosphori their streams maintain , Nor rushing Ifter heaves the ...
... waves with flower heavings creep , And a dead calm benumbs the lazy deep . As when the winter's potent breath constrains The Scythian Euxine in her icy chains ; No more the Bosphori their streams maintain , Nor rushing Ifter heaves the ...
Page 225
... waves may dash , and mounting billows rife ; 650 That ftorms may with returning fury reign , And the rude ocean be itself again . At length the ftill , the fluggish darkness fled , And cloudy morning rear'd its louring head . The ...
... waves may dash , and mounting billows rife ; 650 That ftorms may with returning fury reign , And the rude ocean be itself again . At length the ftill , the fluggish darkness fled , And cloudy morning rear'd its louring head . The ...
Page 232
... waves , and scoops the lowest fand . Nor Eurus then , I ween , was left to dwell , Nor fhowery Notus in th ' Eolian cell ; But each from every fide , his power to boast , Rang'd his proud forces , to defend his coast . Equal in might ...
... waves , and scoops the lowest fand . Nor Eurus then , I ween , was left to dwell , Nor fhowery Notus in th ' Eolian cell ; But each from every fide , his power to boast , Rang'd his proud forces , to defend his coast . Equal in might ...
Page 233
... waves the cloud - compelling fire obey'd , Confefs'd his hand fuppreffing , and were ftay'd . Nor was that gloom the common fhade of night , The friendly darkness , that relieves the light ; But fearful , black , and horrible to tell ...
... waves the cloud - compelling fire obey'd , Confefs'd his hand fuppreffing , and were ftay'd . Nor was that gloom the common fhade of night , The friendly darkness , that relieves the light ; But fearful , black , and horrible to tell ...
Page 234
... wave defends : This lays the fidelong alder on the main , And that reftores the leaning bark again . Obedient to the mighty winds fhe plies , 915 } 925 930 Now feeks the depths , and now invades the skies ; There born aloft , fhe ...
... wave defends : This lays the fidelong alder on the main , And that reftores the leaning bark again . Obedient to the mighty winds fhe plies , 915 } 925 930 Now feeks the depths , and now invades the skies ; There born aloft , fhe ...
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