British Lighthouses: Their History and RomanceT. F. Unwin, 1913 - 383 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 118 - And the night-rack came rolling up ragged and brown. But men must work, and women must weep, Though storms be sudden, and waters deep, And the harbor bar be moaning.
الصفحة 347 - Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith etc.
الصفحة 20 - Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night, The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous. sail.
الصفحة 362 - The Trinity House" shall mean the master, wardens and assistants of the guild, fraternity, or brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond, in the county of Kent...
الصفحة 76 - THE rocky ledge runs far into the sea, And on its outer point, some miles away, The Lighthouse lifts its massive masonry, A pillar of fire by night, of cloud by day. Even at this distance I can see the tides, Upheaving, break unheard along its base, A speechless wrath, that rises and subsides In the white lip and tremor of the face. And as the evening darkens, lo ! how bright, Through the deep purple of the twilight air, Beams forth the...
الصفحة 178 - On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung. When the rock was hid by the surges...
الصفحة 178 - Had placed that Bell on the Inchcape Rock; On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung.
الصفحة 208 - O friend of man! sore- vexed by Ocean's power, The changing tides wash o'er thee day by day; Thy trembling mouth is filled with bitter spray, Yet still thou ringest on from hour to hour; High is thy mission, though thy lot is wild — To be in danger's realm a guardian sound; In seamen's dreams...
الصفحة 310 - The startled waves leap over it ; the storm Smites it with all the scourges of the rain, And steadily against its solid form Press the great shoulders of the hurricane.
الصفحة 345 - Act, from time to time hereafter, at their wills and pleasures, and at their costs, make, erect, and set up such and so many beacons, marks, and signs for the sea, in such place or places of the sea shores, and uplands near the sea coasts or forelands of the sea, only for sea-marks, as to them shall seem most meet, needful, and requisite, whereby the dangers may be avoided and escaped, and ships the better come to their ports without peril.