| Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 страница
...voice he heard He sighed, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1890 - 448 страница
...voice he heard, He sighed, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear And... | |
| John Gay - 1893 - 422 страница
...glowing hands, And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. £, 111 S So the sweet lark, high-poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast (If, chance, his mate's shrill call he hear) 15 And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet, Might envy William's... | |
| John Gay - 1893 - 420 страница
...his glowing hands, And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. Ill So the sweet lark, high-poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast (If, chance, his mate's shrill call he hear) is And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet, Might envy William's... | |
| John Gay - 1893 - 426 страница
...he heard, He sigh'd and cast his eyes below : 10 The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high-poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast (If, chance, his mate's shrill call he hear)... | |
| James Baldwin - 1894 - 376 страница
...voice he heard, He sigh'd and cast his eyes below ; The cord flies swiftly through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And... | |
| William Minto - 1894 - 438 страница
...rest. Ah, what's thy troubled motion, To that within my breast ?" " So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast (If chance his mate's shrill cry he hear), And drops at once into her nest." Gay had more of a gift for simple, fluent, easy, melodious... | |
| William Minto - 1894 - 434 страница
...rest. Ah, what's thy troubled motion, To that within my breast ? " " So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast (If chance his mate's shrill cry he hear), And drops at once into her nest." Gay had more of a gift for simple, fluent, easy, melodious... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 страница
...voice he heard He sighed, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And, quick as lightning, on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast — If chance his mate 's shrill call he hear... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 462 страница
...voice he heard. He sighed and cast his eyes below; The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands. And quick as lightning on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air. Shuts close his pinions to his breast (If, chance, his mate's shrill call he hear),... | |
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