A Voyage in the "Sunbeam"., Volumen 2Rose-Belford, 1879 - 511 páginas |
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A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months Annie Brassey Vista previa restringida - 2010 |
Términos y frases comunes
Aden afterwards anchor appeared arrived ashore beautiful bêche-de-mer beneath birds blue boat Bow Island breakfast breeze bright calm canoes Captain carriage Cauquenes Chinese cocoa-nut colour coral crew crowded dark deck dinner distance Ditto dressed English feet fire fish flowers four fresh friends Fuegians garden half-past harbour hill Hilo Honolulu horses hour island Japanese Johore Kamehameha IV Kilauea Kobe land lava light looked Mabelle Mikado miles morning mountains natives night nine o'clock noon o'clock once Papeete party passed Penang pleasant reached reef returned ride river road rocks round sail sampans Saturday schooner seemed seen sent shade ship shore side soon sort steam steamer Straits Straits of Magellan streets Sunbeam Tahiti temple to-day town trees tropical Valparaiso vegetation verandah vessel voyage walked weather wind yacht Yokohama
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Página 33 - A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys. While like the eagle free Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind...
Página 509 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the...
Página 81 - I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the snoring breeze And white waves heaving high ; And white waves heaving high, my lads, The good ship tight and free — The world of waters is our home, And merry men are we. There's tempest in yon horned moon, And lightning in yon cloud ; But hark the music, mariners ! The wind is piping loud ; The wind is piping loud, my boys, The lightning flashes free — While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.
Página 488 - I travelled among unknown men In lands beyond the sea; Nor, England ! did I know till then What love I bore to thee. 'Tis past, that melancholy dream ! Nor will I quit thy shore A second time; for still I seem To love thee more and more. Among thy mountains did I feel The joy of my desire; And she I...
Página 407 - Imbrowned the noontide bowers : thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; Others whose fruit...
Página 97 - THE twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea. But in the fisherman's cottage There shines a ruddier light, And a little face at the window Peers out into the night. Close, close it is pressed to the window, As if those childish eyes Were looking into the darkness, To see some form arise. And a woman's waving shadow Is...
Página 291 - Years following years, steal something every day, At last they steal us from ourselves away...
Página 376 - Such as gleam in ancient lore ; And the singing of the sailors, And the answer from the shore ! Most of all, the Spanish ballad Haunts me oft, and tarries long, Of the noble Count Arnaldos And the sailor's mystic song.
Página 392 - 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 269 - ... appropriate background. Sometimes great pieces broke off and tumbled with a crash into the burning lake, only to be remelted and thrown up anew. I had for some time been feeling very hot and uncomfortable, and on looking round the cause was at once apparent. Not two inches beneath the surface, the grey lava on which we were standing and sitting was red-hot.