| William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its cherish'd earth ! THE PIRATE'S SONG. " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home ! These... | |
| 1838 - 506 pages
...imaginative and in a different vein, but not less magnificent and impressive, are the following: " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home ! These... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1838 - 508 pages
...imaginative and in a different vein, but not less magnificent and impressive, are the following: " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home ! These... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - 604 pages
...More imaginative and in a d¡fferent vein, but not lees magnificent and impressive, are the following: "O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and onr souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behokl our... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1840 - 502 pages
...other similar preventives, to exclude the wash of the sea from injuring their cargoes. CHAPTER XIV. " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls i.» free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home." BYRON.... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...CANTO I.(2) - ntssun muRRior dolore, ..A Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria, n — Datte', a O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea,] ! Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as] free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows fuuro, 1 Surrey our empire, aud behold our home!... | |
| 1842 - 858 pages
...set, glided from her moorings under the pier into the open Bay — and now we were fairly moving " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless and our souls as free." There are three islands prettily situated at the entrance of Birturby Bay : they are called... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 pages
...of the accent from its regular occurrence, IB often attended with fine effect in the reading. Thus, O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as frefi, Far as tho breeze can bear, or billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home. 5. An... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...FIRST. - nessun magpior dolore, Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria, " — DANTE. I. " О'ка ! The foe, the victim, and the fond ally That fights for all, but ever fights as free, Far as the breeze can Dear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home ! These... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 pages
...branches Shut out the sun-like night, and therefore seemed Fitting to shadow slumber. Mddle—O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home ! Very... | |
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