 O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of...  Phemie Millar, by the author of 'The Kinnears'. - Page 144by Henrietta Keddie - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pages
...written perhaps on the heights of the Bristol Channel : " Break, break, break On thy cold gray stones, O sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts...fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play 1 Oh well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...cold, gray stones, O Sea, And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. 0, well for the fisherman's boy That he shouts with his sister at play! O, well for the sailor lad That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To the... | |
 | 1855 - 374 pages
...other thoughts were busy in my brain, and my heart's song was a dirge — "Break, break, break, "O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play; O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay. "And the stately ships go on, To the... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...cold, gray stones, O Sea, And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O, well for the fisherman's boy That he shouts with his sister at play ! O, well for the sailor lad That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...thy cold gray stones, O Sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...cold grey stones, 0 sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me ! 0, well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ; O, well for the sailor-lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay. And the stately ships go on To... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich - American fiction - 1857 - 252 pages
...cold gray stones, 0 Sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O, well for the fisherman's boy, That, he shouts with his sister at play ! 0, well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on, To... | |
 | American essays - 1902 - 902 pages
...swimming up from the south with the odor of the northeast trades yet in their sails. And it 's " O, well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! " for the schooners of Chatham and Gloucester still scatter their dories above the mighty submarine... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the... | |
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