 | Missions - 1801 - 530 pages
...always distress'd, — Me howling, winds drive devious, teinpest-toss'd, Sails rrpt, seams op'ning wide, and compass lost ; And, day by day, some current's...force Sets me more distant from a prosp'rous course. But, oh ! that thou art safe, and he ! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me." The principal pleafure... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1801 - 614 pages
...withheld, always distress'd — Me howling winds drive devious, tempest-toss' d, Sails ript, seams op'ning wide, and compass lost ; And, day by day, some current's...force Sets me more distant from a prosp'rous course. s But oh the thought that thou art safe, and he, That thought is joy, arrive what may to me." ' The... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1803 - 310 pages
...withheld, always distress' d.... Me howling winds drive devious, tempest toss'd, Sails ript, seams op'ning wide, and compass lost, And day by day some current's thwarting force Sets me more dif ant from a prosp'rous course. But oh the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! That thought is... | |
 | 1801 - 432 pages
...Always from port withheld, always distrest; Me, howling winds drive devious, tempest toss'd, Sails ript, seams open'ing wide, and compass lost, And day by...current's thwarting force, Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. Bat oh ! the thought that thau art safe, and he, That thought is joy — arrive... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 226 pages
...from port withheld, always distressed — Me howling winds drive devious, tempest tossed, Sails ript, seams opening wide, and compass lost, And day by day...current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. But oh the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! That thought is joy, arrive what... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...from port wrthhdd, always distressed— Me howling winds drive devioui, tempest tossed, Sails ript, seams opening wide, and compass lost, And day by day some current's thwarting foYee Sets rue more distant from a prosperous course. But oh the thought, that ihou arfsafe, and he... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 498 pages
...port withheld, always dtstress'd— Me howling winds drive devious, tempest toss'd, ; Sails rrpt,' seams opening wide, and compass lost, And day by day...current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. But oh the thought, that thou art safe, and be ! That thought is joy, arrive what... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...always distress'd— Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest- toss' d, Sails ripp'd, seams op'ning wide, and compass lost, And day by day some current's...thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosp'rous conrse. Vet O the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me.... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Anecdotes - 1809 - 234 pages
...withheld, always distressed. Me howling winds drive devious, tempest toss'd, Sails i-ipt, seams op'ning wide, and compass lost, And day by day, some current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course ; But oh, the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! The thought is joy, arrive what... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 404 pages
...always distress'd — Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-toss 'd, Sails ripp'd, seams op'ning wide, and compass lost, And day by day some current's...Sets me more distant from a prosp'rous course. Yet O the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. * Garth. My... | |
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Yet, oh, the thought that thou art safe, and he, That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins... 
