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" She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. "
The Foreign Quarterly Review - Page 428
1838
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The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1814 - 378 pages
...spurns the 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...the elements to strife — Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV. Hoarse o'er her side the...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 11

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...the elements to strife — Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? She anchors ; her boat is manned...
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The works of ... lord Byron, Volume 3

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 248 pages
...bay Receives that prow which proudly spurns the spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes! 91 Her white wings flying—never from her foes— She...battle-fire—the wreck— To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV. Hoarse o'er her side the rustling cable rings; The sails are furl'd; and anchoring round she...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: The corsair. Lara

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 246 pages
...bay Receives that prow which proudly spurns the spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes! 91 Her white wings flying—never from her foes— She...battle-fire—the wreck— To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV. Hoarse o'er her side the rustling cable rings; The sails are furled; and anchoring round she...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 29

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" —...
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Spirit of the English Magazines

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...
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The corsair, a tale [in verse.].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 152 pages
...spurns the spray. DO How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing...dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — 05 To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV. Hoarse o'er her side...
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The works of ... lord Byron, Volumes 3-4

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 336 pages
...spurlis the 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. \VIio would not brave the battle - fire — the wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck?...
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The works of lord Byron, Volume 2

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 308 pages
...proudly spurns the spray.90 How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing...dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — 95 To move the monarch of her peopled deck ? IV. Hoarse o'er her side...
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Lord Byron's Works, Volumes 1-2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1821 - 486 pages
...proudly spurns the spray. How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying— never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing...dare the elements to strife. Who would not brave the battle-fire — the 'Wreck — To move the monarch of her peopled deck? IV. Hoarse o'er her side the...
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