 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1884 - 392 pages
...rocky lair To warm her young and to teach them spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing. O'er the deep ! o'er the deep ! Where the whale and...blast and the driving rain, The Petrel telleth her tale—in vain : For the mariner curseth the warning bird Who bringeth him news of the storms unheard.... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...rocky lair To warm her young, and to teach them spring At once o'er the wavts: on their stormy wing! O'er the deep! O'er the deep! Where the whale and...Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The Petrel telieth her tale—in vain; For the mariner curseth the warning bird Who bringeth him news of the storms... | |
 | Joseph Hirst Lupton - 1885 - 252 pages
...rocky lair To warn her young, and teach them to spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing. O'er the deep ! o'er the deep ! Where the whale and...curseth the warning bird, Who bringeth him news of the storm unheard. BARRY CORNWALL. RETRANSLATION. Poised on the summit of the waves, anon of the depth... | |
 | Fletcher S. Bassett - Folklore - 1885 - 528 pages
...The tradition of its storm-foreboding character is shown in these lines from a modern poet, — * " The petrel telleth her tale in vain, For the mariner...curseth the warning bird, Who bringeth him news of storms we heard." • And Mrs. Howitt says, — f " Oh, stormy, stormy peterel! Thou art a bird of... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - Children's poetry, English - 1885 - 104 pages
...the stormy wing. Over the deep ! over the deep ! Where the whale, and the shark, and tha swordfish 6 sleep, Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The Petrel telleth her tale — in vain. 1. Tills bird is so called after the apostle Peter (who walked upon the sea tu meet our Lord), became... | |
 | James Johonnot - Zoology - 1886 - 244 pages
...lair To warm her young, and to teach them to spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing ! 3. O'er the deep ! o'er the deep ! Where the whale and...driving rain, The petrel telleth her tale — in vain ; The Stormy Petrel. For the mariner curseth the warning bird Which bringeth him news of the storm... | |
 | 1888 - 634 pages
...the tongue of the tribes of the air, we must be content to leave the riddle unread, and listen while The mariner curseth the warning bird Who bringeth him news of the storm unheard. It is said that whenever a member of the house of the Arnndels of Wardour lies on his... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 802 pages
...rocky lair To warm her young, and to teach them spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing. O'er the Deep ! O'er the Deep ! Where the whale, and...warning bird Who bringeth him news of the storms unheard I Ah ! thus does the prophet, of good or ill, Meet hate from the creatures he serveth still : Yet he... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 810 pages
...ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young, and to teach them wing. O'er the Deep ! O'er the Deep ! Where the whale, and the shark, and the Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The Petrel telleth her tale — in vain ; For the mariner... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - Elocution - 1896 - 388 pages
...array, The main she will traverse for ever and aye. Many ports will exult at the gleam of her mast ! O'ER the deep ! O'er the deep ! Where the whale, and...curseth the warning bird Who bringeth him news of the storm unheard ! Ah ! thus does the prophet, of good or ill, Meet hate from the creatures he serveth... | |
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Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The petrel telleth her tale — in vain... 
