 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 874 sidor
...opening stanza of the Corsair, ' O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea ? ' Is there not power in it ? Still must I on ; for I am as a weed Flung from the...Ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep. And is there not here the restfulness of its eternity ? Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - 396 sidor
...two instances comes another, at the opening of the third canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1816): "Once more upon the waters! yet once more! / And the...roar! / Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead!" (2). The three form a series, which proceeds by turning upon a previous stage: Childe Harold on "Lord... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 sidor
...Whither I know not; but the hoar's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye. straiu'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 sidor
...know not; but the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye. 10 Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the...Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, 15 And the rent canvass fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on; for I am as a weed, Flung from... | |
 | Patti Berg - 2009 - 388 sidor
..."Sail away, madam. Tis a most pleasant and entertaining voyage I am looking forward to." Chapter 4 Once more upon the waters! Yet once more! And the...as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome to their roarl Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it leadl LORD BYRON CHILDE HAROLD-S PILGRIMAGE. CANTO Ill... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 sidor
...page, And be alone on earth, as I am now. Childe Harold's l'i/!/rmiiifl('(i8i2-i8)canto 2, st. 98 8 Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed Thai knows his rider. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-18) canto 3, st. 2 9 The wandering outlaw of... | |
 | Dionysios Solōmos, Hans-Christian Günther - 2000 - 312 sidor
...l know not; but the hour's gone by/ When Albion 's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye./ Once more upon the waters! yet once more! /And the...bound beneath me as a steed/ That knows his rider ...). Byrons Tochter Augusta Ada (1815-1852) wurde auf ihren Wunsch neben ihrem Vater beigesetzt. Str.... | |
 | Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin - 2004 - 400 sidor
...Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.1 Once more upon the waters! yet once more! 10 And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows...Ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, or tempest's breath prevail. 3 In my youth's summer I did sing of One,4 The wandering outlaw of his... | |
 | Jonah Siegel - 2005 - 308 sidor
...canto 3, for instance, a first person celebrates the return to voyaging, but it is not the Childe: "Once more upon the waters! yet once more! / And the...bound beneath me as a steed / That knows his rider" (3.10-12). The Childe, here as throughout, is evidently nothing but an instrument subject to the will... | |
 | James A. W. Heffernan - 2006 - 439 sidor
...present tense to tell the story of an actual embarkation, and of his reckless surrender to the elements: "I am as a weed, / Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail / Where'er the surge may sweep, or tempest's breath prevail" (3.2). By contrast, the I of stanza 3 first uses the past tense to say... | |
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Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed, And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on ocean's foam, to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. 
