 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1886 - 504 trang
...there ; and he died at sea at last, as described in Longfellow's ballad : "Beside the helm he sat, The Book was in his hand, ' Do not fear ; Heaven is as near,' He said, ' by water as by land.' " He had obtained a commission from the Queen " to inhabit and possess at his choice all remote and... | |
 | Elizabeth Amelia Sharp - 1887 - 366 trang
...land-wind failed, And ice-cold grew the night : And never more, on sea or shore, Should Sir Humphrey see the light. He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his...Heaven is as near, ' He said, " by water as by land ! " In the first watch of the night, Without a signal's sound, Out of the sea mysteriously The fleet... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 360 trang
...land-wind failed, And ice-cold grew the night ; And nevermore, on sea or shore. Should Sir Humphrey see the light. He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his...Heaven is as near," He said, " by water as by land ! " In the first watch of the night, Without a signal's sound. Out of the sea, mysteriously, The fleet... | |
 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks - 1888 - 348 trang
...land wind failed, And ice-cold grew the night, And nevermore on sea or shore Should Sir Humphrey see the light. " He sat upon the deck, The Book was in...Heaven is as near," He said, ' by water as by land ! * " Sir Richard Grenville — "our second Richard Lion Heart," Gerald Massey calls him * — one... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 trang
...land-wind failed, And ice-cold grew the night; And nevermore, on sea or shore, Should Sir Humphrey see the light, He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his...Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land ! " In the first watch of the night, Without a signal's sound, Out of the sea, mysteriously, The fleet... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 trang
...land-wind failed, And ice-cold grew the night; And nevermore, on sea or shore, Should Sir Humphrey see the light He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his...Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!" In the first watch of the night, Without a signal's sound, Out of the sea, mysteriously, The fleet... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 254 trang
...land-wind failed, And ice-cold grew the night j And nevermore, on sea or shore, Should Sir Humphrey see the light. He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his...Heaven is as near," He said, " by water as by land ! " Out of the sea, mysteriously, The fleet of Death rose all around. The moon and the evening star... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 264 trang
...bore, Then, alas ! the land-wind failed. Alas ! the land-wind failed, And ice-cold grew the night ; He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his hand ; "...Heaven is as near," He said, " by water as by land ! " In the first watch of the night, — Without a signal's sound, — Out of the sea, mysteriously,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1891 - 800 trang
...grew the night ; And never more, on sea or shore, Should Sir Humphrey see the light. He sat upon tlie deck, The Book was in his hand ; " Do not fear ! Heaven is as near," He said, " by water as by land ! " In the first watch of the night, Without a signal's sound, Out of the sea, mysteriously. The fleet... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1891 - 690 trang
...truth so touchingly told in the verse of Longfellow in the last utterance of Sir Humphrey Gilbert : " He sat upon the deck, The book was in his hand ; Do not fear : ' Heaven is near,' He said, ' by water as by land. ' " Hitching the horse at the gate we entered the cemetery,... | |
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He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his hand ; " Do not fear ! Heaven is as near... 
