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" The wings of the south-west wind are widened ; the breath of his fervent lips, More keen than a sword's edge, fiercer than fire, falls full on the plunging ships. The pilot is he of their northward flight, their stay and their steersman he ; A helmsman... "
Bibliothèque universelle et revue suisse - Page 128
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Poems and Ballads: Third series

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1889 - 204 pages
...there ? O servants of God most high, shall his winds not pass you by, and his waves not spare ? 1I1. The wings of the south-west wind are widened ; the...helmsman clothed with the tempest, and girdled with strength to constrain the sea. And the host of them trembles and quails, caught fast in his hand as...
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Poems and Ballads: Third series

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1889 - 230 pages
...there ? O servants of God most high, shall his winds not pass you by, and his waves not spare ? IIL The wings of the south-west wind are widened ; the...helmsman clothed with the tempest, and girdled with strength to constrain the sea. And the host of them trembles and quails, caught fast in his hand as...
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Poems and Ballads: Third series

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1889 - 202 pages
...there ? O servants of God most high, shall his winds not pass you by, and his waves not spare ? In. The wings of the south-west wind are widened ; the...helmsman clothed with the tempest, and girdled with strength to constrain the sea. And the host of them trembles and quails, caught fast in his hand as...
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Poems and Ballads: Third Series

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1889 - 232 pages
...witnesses come. They press with sunset to seaward for comfort : and shall not they find it there ? HL The wings of the south-west wind are widened; the • breath of his fervent lips, Mote keen than a sword's edge, fiercer than fire- falls full on the plunging ships. The pilot is he...
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Poems and Ballads: Third Series

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1899 - 232 pages
...there ? O servants of God most high, shall his winds not pass you by, and his waves not spare ? III. The wings of the south-west wind are widened ; the...northward flight, their stay and their steersman he j A helmsman clothed with the tempest, and girdled with strength to constrain the sea. And the host...
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Poems & Ballads: Second & Third Series

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1902 - 356 pages
...it there? O servants of God most high, shall his winds not pass you by, and his waves not spare? 1n The wings of the south-west wind are widened ; the...helmsman clothed with the tempest, and girdled with strength to constrain the sea. And the host of them trembles and quails, caught fast in his hand as...
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The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne...

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1904 - 392 pages
...it there ? O servants of God most high, shall his winds not pass you by, and his waves not spare ? m The wings of the south-west wind are widened ; the...helmsman clothed with the tempest, and girdled with strength to constrain the sea. And the host of them trembles and quails, caught fast in his hand as...
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Selected Poems

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1905 - 434 pages
...there ? O servants of God most high, shall his winds not pass you by, and his waves not spare ? Ill The wings of the south-west wind are widened ; the...helmsman clothed with the tempest, and girdled with strength to constrain the sea. And the host of them trembles and quails, caught fast in his hand as...
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Reviews, Volume 1

Oscar Wilde - 1908 - 582 pages
...He is so eloquent that whatever he touches becomes unreal. Let us turn to the poem on the Armada : The wings of the south-west wind are widened ; the...falls full on the plunging ships. The pilot is he of the northward flight, their stay and their steersman he; A helmsman clothed with the tempest, and girdled...
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Studies in the Teaching of History

Maurice Walter Keatinge - 1910 - 252 pages
...Armada can be read ; in the later stage stirring passages can be taken from Mr. Swinburne's Armada : — The wings of the south-west wind are widened ; the...fiercer than fire, falls full on the plunging ships — 1 The last four extracts are quoted from E. Pertwee's English History in Verse. As far as these...
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