Hester, the Bride of the Islands: A PoemBailey & Noyes, 1860 - 336 pagina's |
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Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Hester, the Bride of the Islands: A Poem (Classic Reprint) Sylvester B. Beckett Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2018 |
Hester, the Bride of the Islands: A Poem (Classic Reprint) Sylvester B. Beckett Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2016 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
adown Allah battle Bayard Taylor beneath blue brave breath bride Briton brow calm Casco Bay chirography cloud Damascus deep desert Désirée doth dread dream earth Edom fate fear flowers forest gainst gale gazed gleam glen gloom gone grew hand Harpswell hath heard heart Heaven heed Hester hill hour Hubart Hugh Miller hush Indian Indian runner island isle JEW'S Jewess Kennebec River lady length light lonely midst mood mountain naught ne'er neath night o'er old Carl once Otraska pale pasha's perchance Pharpar plain Pomola Red Sea roar rock round sail sand santon Saracen scarce scene seemed shade shallop shore smile song sooth soul sound spake Squanto steed steep stood storm strange stream strife sweep sword tale tempest thee thine thou thought throng trees turned Twas twere wandering wave whence whirl wild wind
Populaire passages
Pagina 335 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Pagina 332 - Standing near the shore of the northern extremity of the Red Sea, I saw before me an immense sandy valley, which, without the aid of geological science, to the eye of common observation and reason, had once been the bottom of a sea, or the bed of a river. This dreary valley, extending far beyond the reach of the eye, had been partly explored by Burckhardt, sufficiently to ascertain and mention it, in the latest geography...
Pagina 332 - Burckhardt ; sufficiently to ascertain and mention it in the latest geography of the country, as the great valley of El Ghor, extending from the shores of the Elanitic gulf to the southern extremity of the Lake Asphaltites or the Dead Sea ; and it was manifest by landmarks of Nature's own providing, that over that sandy plain those seas had once mingled their waters, or, perhaps more probably, that before the cities of the plain had been consumed by brimstone and fire, and Sodom and Gomorrah covered...
Pagina 329 - Gray visited this place, he heard at the end of a quarter of an hour a low continuous murmuring sound beneath his feet, which gradually changed into pulsations as it became louder, so as to resemble the striking of a clock. In five minutes it became so strong as to resemble the striking of a clock, and even to detach the sand.
Pagina 335 - Pharpar, forces its way to the plain, and its waters, divided into twelve different channels, make all between you and those blue island-hills of the desert, one great garden, the boundaries of which your vision can barely distinguish. Its longest diameter cannot be less than twenty miles. You look down on a world of foliage, and fruit, and blossoms, whose hue, by contrast with the barren mountains and the yellow rim of the desert which incloses it, seems brighter than all other gardens in the world....
Pagina 332 - ... had once been the bottom of a sea, or the bed of a river. This dreary valley, extending far beyond the reach of the eye, had been partly explored by Burckhardt ; sufficiently to ascertain and mention it in the latest geography of...
Pagina 328 - ... prodigious black rock, which rose in grand contrast with the brown mountains ; the sea, of the deepest blue, opening out at the end of the gorge, and bounded afar by the Egyptian hills, dressed in heavenly hues. We came down upon the sea, and went in and out, between it and the mountains, many times. The rocks were the most diversified I ever saw. I noted them on the spot as being black, green, crimson, lilac, maroon, yellow, golden, and white ; and their form was that of a whole host of cones.
Pagina 328 - I write it because others have said and written the same; you may tell me I dreamed it. I care not what you say, but I know that on that stormy Saturday night I heard the church bells of my old home sounding over the tossing waves of the Nile. Yes, I heard them. I, too, laughed when I read in the books of travels of others that they heard such sounds on the desert, but I did not laugh now, for I have learned the truth of those sounds right well. I was sitting just here where I now sit, writing a...
Pagina 329 - I remembered it — and then — and then I heard those bells. They sounded sweetly— clearly, and I sprang to the door of the cabin, and out into the starry night, and leaned my head forward to listen to the melody. Soft, soft and sweet they came over the swift river ; clear, rich, and full. There could be no mistaking them. I might have doubted, but the tones were all the same. There was the Presbyterian bell, deep, stern, and solemn in every...
Pagina 334 - When you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of oriental splendor. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.