The Career of ColumbusCassell, 1892 - 307 páginas |
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Página 72 - twas wondrous pitiful ; She wished she had not heard it; yet she wished That Heaven had made her such a man : she thanked me ; And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake ; She loved me for the dangers I had passed ; And I loved her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have used; Here comes the lady, let her witness it.
Página 12 - I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free ; And Spanish sailors with bearded lips. And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Página 88 - Built round with ivy, which the waterfalls Illumining, with sound that never fails, Accompany the noonday nightingales. And all the place is peopled with sweet airs. The light clear element which the isle wears Is heavy with the scent of lemon-flowers, Which floats like mist laden with unseen showers. And falls upon the eyelids like faint sleep; And from the moss violets and jonquils peep, And dart their arrowy odour through the brain, Till you might faint with that delicious pain.
Página 169 - The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That...
Página 255 - Chains for the Admiral of the Ocean ! chains For him who gave a new heaven, a new earth As holy John had prophesied of me, Gave glory and more empire to the kings Of Spain than all their battles ! chains for him Who...
Página 272 - To equalize the lofty and the low. We sail the sea of life — a Calm One finds, And One a Tempest — and, the voyage o'er, Death is the quiet haven of us all.
Página 234 - O hundred shores of happy climes, How swiftly streamed ye by the bark ! At times the whole sea burned, at times With wakes of fire we tore the dark ; At times a carvon craft would shoot From havens hid in fairy bowers, THE VOYAGE.
Página 224 - The air broke into a mist with bells, The old walls rocked with the crowd and cries. Had I said, "Good folk, mere noise repels — But give me your sun from yonder skies!" They had answered, "And afterward, what else?
Página 92 - Africa, were on a sudden driven by a furious storm afar off into the main ocean ; and after they had lain under this violent tempest for many days, they at length arrived at this island; and so, coming to the knowledge of the nature and pleasantness of this isle, they were the first that discovered it...
Página 91 - Western parts of Europe. These merchants succeeding in their undertaking, and thereupon growing very rich, passed at length beyond the Pillars of Hercules into the sea called the ocean. And first they built a city called Gades near to Hercules...