A Ship of SolaceSturgis & Walton, 1911 - 272 pages |
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anchor Away-a-a-ay Azores barque big sea blowing blue boat Bovril bowlin boys bunk cabin calm Cape Cape Bojador capstan Captain chanty Char Charlotte Charlotte's Cheerily Chorus clouds cook Crabsticks crew deck declared Doctor eyes face feel feet fellow fishes fore fore-and-aft rigged grey hair halliards hand hang haul head heard heart Jack Robinson knee lassie lifted light lives look lotte Macgregor mast mate mate's mizzen morning mouth never night oilskins once poop poop-deck rigging Roaring Forties rolling rope round Royals free running sail sailing-ship sailors saloon seemed ship shout side sight singing Solo sort soul spanker staysail storm strange Studding sails suddenly taffrail tell thing third mate thought to-day topsail turned vang voice voyage watch waves white squall wind wonder word yards
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Page 122 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Page 203 - I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, I flamed amazement: sometime I'ld divide, And burn in many places; on the topmast, The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors O...
Page 99 - I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun...
Page 107 - Methought, I saw a thousand fearful wrecks ; A thousand men, that fishes gnawed upon ; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea.
Page 108 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Page 131 - When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder : Then did he see it, and declare it ; he prepared it, yea and searched it out. And unto man he said, Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom ; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Page 68 - Thus as he was refined and made nearer unto the image of God, so it pleased the Divine will to resume him unto Himself, whither both his and every other high and noble mind have always aspired.
Page 3 - Why doth not the water recover his right over the earth, being higher in nature ? Whence came the salt, and who first...
Page 15 - Burdeux ward, while that the chapman slepe. Of nice conscience toke he no kepe. If that he faught, and hadde the higher hand, By water he sent hem home to every land. But of his craft to reken wel his tides, His stremes and his strandes him besides, His herberwe, his mone, and his lodemanage, There was non swiche, from Hull unto Cartage.
Page 218 - Tiger: But in a sieve I'll thither sail, And, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.