 For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun...  Folklore - Page 23edited by - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 pages
...yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, 10 Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern... | |
 | 1870 - 462 pages
...possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, I Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun climbs... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1872 - 396 pages
...while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no powerful inch to gain, z iz 8 E£ « i s B o E Far back, through creeks and inlets 'making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. H D I tT i o And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light ; In front, the... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 pages
...yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And. but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light ; In front, the sun climbs... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1874 - 416 pages
...yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main, And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, In front, the sun climbs... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1906 - 610 pages
...retro sublapsa re/em'," But humanity at heart is infinitely and eternally optimistic, and knows better. For while the tired waves vainly breaking Seem here...and inlets making Comes silent flooding in the main. We may deline to accept the facts, but it is useless to dispute the report that since the world of... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1882 - 524 pages
...is more of the sea brought before our eyes than in hundreds of Mr. Swinburne's rolling lines : — ' For while the tired waves vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main.' Of Mr. Swinburne's treatment of love there is no need to say much. It may be unfair to bring against... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 pages
...change was surely but imperceptibly effecting itself in the collective mind of their fellow-countrvmen. For, while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. Events were at hand which unmistakably showed how different was the England of 1830 from the England... | |
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