 Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its...  Echoes from the Backwoods: Or, Sketches of Transatlantic Life - Seite 127von Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge - 1846Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 Seiten
...Horribly beautiful! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris iits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their... | |
 | John Wilson - 1850 - 378 Seiten
...at all. my dear Talboya. Now, Buller, I wish you, seriously and calmly, to think on this image — " An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed." Did Hope — could Hope ever sit by such a death-bed ! The infernal surge — the hell of waters —... | |
 | 1852 - 432 Seiten
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 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 Seiten
...to sweep down all things in its traek, Charming the eye with dread, — a matehless eataraet, LXXII. Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to...Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their... | |
 | 1852 - 892 Seiten
...be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings through the vale — Look back ! Lo 1 where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down...Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their... | |
 | Walter Campbell (writer on India.) - 1853 - 416 Seiten
...only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale : — Look back ! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity,...Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their... | |
 | Alfred Bunn - 1853 - 362 Seiten
...torrent, the American Fall ! The smaller one, the Central ! The double Iris, spanning the abyss — " On the verge From side to side, beneath the glittering...Like Hope upon a death-bed, and unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - 1853 - 362 Seiten
...matchless cataract, Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering mom, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 Seiten
...be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, [back ! With many windings, through the vale : — Look wells but in the desert, and sweeps o'er The barren sands which bear no shrubs to dvcu, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 Seiten
...rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale : — Look back ! Lo ! where it conies like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in...Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their... | |
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