Deck and Port: Or, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California ; with Sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco |
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... shadow fell . A few of them , better versed in lunar observations , explained to the rest the phenomenon . They said the earth had shoved a part of her black hull between us and the moon . But when asked why she had done this , the ...
... shadow fell . A few of them , better versed in lunar observations , explained to the rest the phenomenon . They said the earth had shoved a part of her black hull between us and the moon . But when asked why she had done this , the ...
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... shadows on thy farewell track , A whisper of thy bliss came floating back . It came too soft and low for Echo's breath , And died , with tender transport in its tone ; But ere it ceased , it reached the ear of Death , And shook the ...
... shadows on thy farewell track , A whisper of thy bliss came floating back . It came too soft and low for Echo's breath , And died , with tender transport in its tone ; But ere it ceased , it reached the ear of Death , And shook the ...
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... shadow . This position gives the moon a much greater apparent distance than it has when near the horizon . It now seems as some heaven - born sphere , that , having in vain tried to win you from the cares of earth , has gone back with ...
... shadow . This position gives the moon a much greater apparent distance than it has when near the horizon . It now seems as some heaven - born sphere , that , having in vain tried to win you from the cares of earth , has gone back with ...
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... shadows below . The whole bay is like a resplendent lake looking to heaven amid Alpine pinnacles . High above all soars the steep Corcovada , where plays the first blush of morn , and where the dying day lingers ; while the Organ ...
... shadows below . The whole bay is like a resplendent lake looking to heaven amid Alpine pinnacles . High above all soars the steep Corcovada , where plays the first blush of morn , and where the dying day lingers ; while the Organ ...
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... shadows of nigh and sending up their exhalations , which are enoug . to make the man in the moon hold his nose . But let that pass . Flowers spring from corruption . Man pollutes , but nature purifies . A spirit of freedom is gradually ...
... shadows of nigh and sending up their exhalations , which are enoug . to make the man in the moon hold his nose . But let that pass . Flowers spring from corruption . Man pollutes , but nature purifies . A spirit of freedom is gradually ...
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Page 315 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Page 85 - And this is in the night : most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight — A portion of the tempest, and of thee ! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again 'tis black — and now the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
Page 51 - ... looking for the general Resurrection in the last, day, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ; at whose second coming in glorious majesty to judge the world, the earth and the sea shall give up their dead; and the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall be changed, and made like unto his own glorious body; according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself.
Page 61 - ... immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves ; Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread : But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where past the shaft no trace is found.
Page 79 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 402 - made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Page 190 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 282 - Thou unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. • Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age, that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound.
Page 75 - Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail, Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom.
Page 284 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...