| 1844 - 1128 pages
...The harmless storm was ended. And, as the sunrise splendid Came blushing o'er the sea, I thought, as day was breaking, My little girls were waking, And smiling, and making A prayer at home for me." Bnt we must devote all our remaining space to the description of the ,*saey from Jaffa to Jerusalem... | |
| American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...The harmless storm was ended, And, as the sunrise splendid, Came blushing o'er the sea, I thought, as day was breaking, My little girls were waking, And smiling and making A prayer at home for me." Apropos to this, he gives a pleasant account of getting home letters at Cairo. " I saw a young Oxford... | |
| Sir Francis Bond Head - Mineral waters - 1845 - 430 pages
...harmless storm was -ended, And, as the sunrise splendid . Came blushing o'er the sea ; I thought, as day was breaking, My little girls were waking, And smiling, and making A prayer at home for me. X. TELMESSUS BEYROUT. THERE should have been a poet in our company to describe that charming little... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1846 - 344 pages
...The harmless storm was ended, And, as the sunrise splendid Came blushing o'er the sea ; I thought, as day was breaking, My little girls were waking, And smiling, and making A prayer at home for me. X. TELMESSUS-BEYROUT. HERE should have been a poet in our company to describe that charming little... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Europe, Southern - 1846 - 214 pages
...The harmless storm was ended, And, as the sunrise splendid Came blushing o'er the sea ; I thought, as day was breaking, My little girls were waking, And smiling, and making A prayer at home for me. X. TELMESSUS BEYROUT. THERE should have been a poet in our company to describe that charming little... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Europe, Southern - 1848 - 208 pages
...The harmless storm was ended, And, as the sunrise splendid Came blushing o'er the sea ; I thought, as day was breaking, My little girls were waking, And smiling, and making A prayer at home for me. X. TELMESSUS BEYROUT. THERE should have been a poet in our company to describe that charming little... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1855 - 526 pages
...The harmless storm was ended, And, as the sunrise splendid Came blushing o'er the sea ; I thought, as day was breaking, My little girls were waking, And smiling, and making A prayer at home for ine. 1844. PEG OF LIMAVADDT. BIDING from Coleraine (Famed for lovely Kitty), Came a Cockney bound Unto... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 260 pages
...harmless storm was ended, And as the sunrise splendid Came blushing o'er the sea, — I thought, as day was breaking, My little girls were waking, And smiling, and making A prayer at home for me. PEG OF LIMAVADDY. RIDING from Coleraine (Famed for lovely Kitty) Came a Cockney bound Unto Derry city... | |
| American wit and humor - 1859 - 338 pages
...harmless storm was ended, And as the sunrise splendid Came blushing o'er the sea,— I thought, as day was breaking, My little girls were waking, And smiling, and making A prayer at home for me. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. THE IRISHMAN. THERE was a lady lived at Leith, A lady very stylish, man—... | |
| Periodicals - 1881 - 588 pages
...The harmless storm was ended, And as the sunrise splendid Came blushing o'er the sea, I thought, as day was breaking, My little girls were waking, And smiling, and making A prayer at home for me." We may read Thackeray's poetry again and again, and wish there was more of it, and though it is not,... | |
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