 | 1814 - 548 pages
...equally welcome by exhibiting the blood-ted flag, which signalizes the armed ships of their comrades. ' She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife — Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck ?... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1814 - 378 pages
...spray ; 90 How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes. She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife — Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck ?... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 248 pages
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes! 91 Her white wings flying—never from her foes— She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire—the wreck— To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV. Hoarse... | |
 | 1831 - 602 pages
...appeared since its publication ; especiallv Lord Byron's well-known and justly-admired couplet — " She walks the waters like a thing of life ; And seems to dare the elements to strife." Nor is the next quotation less powerful in its kind, although of a different stamp : THE WRECK. But... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 246 pages
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes! 91 Her white wings flying—never from her foes— She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire—the wreck— To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV. Hoarse... | |
 | England - 1831 - 1044 pages
...craft, in ludicrous alarm, are seen scudding, under bare poles, helter-skelter, for any haven, lo ! " SHE walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife!" We are sick and surly — and no wonder. The Whigs are In. But " yet there is ae comfort left" —... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 152 pages
...DO How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — 05 To move the monarch of her peopled deck ?... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 308 pages
...spray.90 How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — 95 To move the monarch of her peopled deck ?... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1821 - 486 pages
...spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying— never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire — the 'Wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck? IV.... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...stud-sails, is to fancy one of those lady-ships, who from Trojan galleys were changed into seanymphs; — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. For all that he has endured, our mariner has only been made a gunner's mate ; but " one man is born... | |
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She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. 
