 | 1877 - 594 pages
...that carries one along with it : — ' Oli sweet it was in Aves to hear the landward breeze A-swing with good tobacco in a net between the trees, With a negro lass to fan you, while you listened io the roar Of the breakers on the reef outside, that never touched the shore.' This has the true smack... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1852 - 814 pages
...young mariners, a sweeping in from sea. Oh, sweet it was in Aves, to hear the landward breeze, A-swing with good tobacco in a net between the trees ; With...listened to the roar Of the breakers on the reef outside, that never came to shore. But Scripture saitb, an ending to all fine things must be, So the king's... | |
 | Charles Kingsley, Frederick Denison Maurice - 1856 - 294 pages
...gallant sailors a sweeping in from sea. v. Oh sweet it was in Aves to hear the landward breeze A-swing with good tobacco in a net between the trees, With...listened to the roar Of the breakers on the reef outside that never touched the shore. VI. But Scripture saith, an ending to all fine things must be, So the... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1856 - 312 pages
...gallant sailors a sweeping in from sea. v. Oh sweet it was in Aves to hear the landward breeze A-swing with good tobacco in a net between the trees, With...listened to the roar Of the breakers on the reef outside that never touched the shore. vi. But Scripture saith, an ending to all fine things must be, So the... | |
 | Charles Kingsley, Frederick Denison Maurice - 1856 - 310 pages
...gallant sailors a sweeping in from sea. v. Oh sweet it was in Aves to hear the landward breeze A-swing with good tobacco in a net between the trees, With...listened to the roar Of the breakers on the reef outside that never touched the shore. VI. But Scripture saith, an ending to all fine things must be, So the... | |
 | Charles Kingsley, Frederick Denison Maurice - 1856 - 298 pages
...gallant sailors a sweeping in from sea. v. Oh sweet it was in Aves to hear the landward breeze A-swing with good tobacco in a net between the trees, With...listened to the roar Of the breakers on the reef outside that never touched the shore. VI. But Scripture saith, an ending to all fine things must be, So the... | |
 | Charles Kingsley, Frederick Denison Maurice - 1856 - 308 pages
...gallant sailors a sweeping in from sea, v. Oh sweet it was in Aves to hear the landward breeze A-swing with good tobacco in a net between the trees, With...listened to the roar Of the breakers on the reef outside that never touched the shore. VI. But Scripture saith, an ending to all fine things must be, So the... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Poetry - 1858 - 188 pages
...gallant sailors, a-sweeping in from sea. v. Oh sweet it was in Av£s to hear the landward breeze A-swing with good tobacco in a net between the trees, With...listened to the roar Of the breakers on the reef outside, that never touched the shore. vt But Scripture aaith, an ending to all fine things must be ; So the... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Poetry - 1858 - 188 pages
...bondage fast did flee, To welcome gallant sailors, a-sweeping in from sea. v. With a negro lass to fen you, while you listened to the roar Of the breakers on the reef outside, that never touched the shore. VI. But Scripture saith, an ending to all fine things must be ; So the... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - Europe - 1860 - 546 pages
...semi-sleep. But how delicious such repose ! " Oh sweet it was, in A ves, to feel the landward breeze, A-swing with good tobacco, in a net between the trees, With...a negro lass to fan you, while you listened to the roai Of the breakers on the reef outside, that never touched the shore I" One, therefore, who wishes... | |
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And the colibris and parrots they were gorgeous to behold; And the negro maids to Aves from bondage fast did flee, To welcome gallant sailors, a-sweeping in from sea. Oh sweet it was in Aves to hear the landward breeze A-swing... 
