 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...race, thus to boldly rear A fabric so vast in a realm so drear. Ye bind the deep with your secret zone, The ocean is sealed and the surge a stone; Fresh wreaths...man's purest cup; There are foes that watch for his cradle-breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death? With mouldering bones the deeps are white,... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1843 - 356 pages
...do ye plant 'neath the billows dark The wrecking reef for the gallant bark ? THE CORAL INSECT. 265 There are snares enough on the tented field ; 'Mid...serpents to coil ere the flowers are up ; There's a poison drop in man's purest cup ; There are foes that watch for his cradle-breath, And why need ye... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - American poetry - 1845 - 376 pages
...thus to boldly rear A fabric so vast, in a realm so drear. Ye bind the deep with your secret zone, The ocean is sealed, and the surge a stone ; Fresh...serpents to coil ere the flowers are up ; There's a poison drop in man's purest cup ; There are foes that watch for his cradle-breath, And why need ye... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...wrecking reef for ths gallant bark ? There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the blossom'd sweets that the valleys yield ; There are serpents...man's purest cup, There are foes that watch for his cradle-breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death ? With mouldering bones the deeps are white,... | |
 | 1847 - 828 pages
...wrecking reef for the gallant bark ? There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the blossom'd sweets that the valleys yield ; There are serpents to coil ere the flowers are up, There's a poison drop in man's purest cup, There are focs that watch tor his cradlebreath, And why need ye sow... | |
 | American poetry - 1848 - 276 pages
...the crested wave •, Ye 're a puny race, thus to boldly rear A fabric so vast, in a realm so drear. Fresh wreaths from the coral pavement spring, Like...serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up ; There's a poison drop in man's purest cup; There are foes that watch for his cradle breath. And why need ye sow... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...wrecking reef for the gallant bark ? There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the blossom'd sweets that the valleys yield ; There are serpents...man's purest cup, There are foes that watch for his cradle-breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death ? Ye build, — ye build, — but ye enter... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1849 - 472 pages
...looks green where the breakers roll'd, O'er the whirlpool ripens the rind of gold, The sea-snatch'd isle is the home of men, And mountains exult where...serpents to coil ere the flowers are up ; There's a poison drop in man's purest cup ; There are foes that watch for his cradle-breath : And why need ye... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1849 - 508 pages
...breakers ri'll'd, O'er the whirlpool ripm* the rind of gold, The sea-snaich'd isle is the home of IIH-M. And mountains exult where the wave hath been. But...serpents to coil ere the flowers are up ; There's a poison drop in man's purest cup; There are foes that watch for his cradle-breath : And why need ye... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...wrecking reef for the gallant bark ? There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the blossom'd sweets that the valleys- yield ; There are serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up ; There 'sa poison-drop in man's purest cup, There are foes that watch for his cradle-breath, And why... | |
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neath the billows dark, The wrecking reef for the gallant bark? There are snares enough on the tented field, 'Mid the blossomed sweets that the valleys yield; There are serpents to coil, ere the flowers are up; There's a... 
