 tis at a white heat now: The bellows ceased, the flames decreased though on the forge's brow The little flames still fitfully play through the sable mound, And fitfully you still may see the grim smiths ranking round, All clad in leathern panoply, their...  Blackwood's Magazine - Pagina 2811832Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pagina’s
...through the sable mound ; And fitfully you still may sec the grim smiths ranking round, All clad in leathern panoply, their broad hands only bare ; ,...work the windlass there. The windlass strains the tackle-chains, the black mound heaves below, And red and deep a hundred veins burst out at every throe;... | |
 | Stetson kindred of America, Inc - 1907 - 390 pagina’s
...through the sable mound, And fitfully you still may see the grim smiths ranking round, All clad in leathern panoply, their broad hands only bare; Some...their sledges here some work the windlass there." And yet should we visit now the scene of these early industries, the vision would be dispelled by the... | |
 | Frances Ellis Sabin - 1927 - 442 pagina’s
...271-273 * IN THE WORLD OF TODAY I. IN LITERARY ALLUSION The windlass strains the tackle-chains — the black mound heaves below, And red and deep a hundred...roars, rends all outright — O Vulcan, what a glow ! SAMUEL FERGUSON, "The Forging of the Anchor," in Lays of the Ancient Gad II. IN WORDS The word vulcanize,... | |
 | Joel Myerson - 1997 - 310 pagina’s
...essay. The poem describes the moment when the huge red-hot casting is winched up from its charcoal bed: The windlass strains the tackle chains, the black...and deep a hundred veins burst out at every throe, lt rises, roars, rends all outright. . . .The high sun sees not, on the earth, such a fiery fearful... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 848 pagina’s
...through the sable mound ; And fitfully you still may see the grim smiths ranking round ; All clad in ast, the style of Rustum's son ; Or that men gave...he; yet he listened, plunged in thought ; And his so tackle-chains — the black mould heaves below ; And red and deep, a hundred veins burst out at every... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 pagina’s
...through the sable mound ; And fitfully you still may see the grim smiths ranking round, All clad in , it is the shape, the shape of my mate ! 0 moon,...Land ! land ! 0 land ! Whichever way I turn, 0, 1 tackle-chains, the black mound heaves below, And red and deep a hundred veins burst out at every throe... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1872 - 718 pagina’s
...through the sable mound, And fitfully you still may see the grim smiths ranking round ; All clad in leathern panoply, their broad hands only bare. Some...work the windlass there. The windlass strains the tackle-chains — the black mould heaves below ; And, red and deep, a hundred veins burst out at every... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - 1888 - 790 pagina’s
...through the sabb mound, And fitfully you still may see the grim smiths ranking round, All clad in leather panoply, their broad hands only bare — ¡ Some rest upon their sledges here, some work the I . windlass there. I The windlass strains the tackle chains, the black mound heaves below, ! And red... | |
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