 Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus, Dipping through the Tropics...  Littell's Living Age - Page 661913Full view - About this book
 | 1918 - 416 pages
...poetry in freights and cargoes. As Maseneld writes : ' Quinqueremes of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine With a cargo...from the Isthmus Dipping through the Tropics by the palm green shores With a cargo of diamonds, Emeralds, amethysts, Topazes, cinnamon, and gold moidores.... | |
 | Wallace Rice, Frances Rice - 1910 - 466 pages
...for the tenth of a year. JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN. CARGOES QUINQUTREME of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo...moidores. Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smokestack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days, With a cargo of Tyne coal, Road-rails,... | |
 | John Masefield - 1912 - 360 pages
...surf of Los Muertos which is beating in my ears. CARGOES QUINQUIREME of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo...and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus, Dipping through the Tropics by the palmgreen shores,... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1913 - 1048 pages
...And left you to your game. JOHN MASEFIELD 74 r- Cargoes kUINQUIREME of Nineveh from distant Ophir Q' Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo...moidores. Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke-stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days, With a cargo of Tyne coal, Road-rails,... | |
 | John Masefield - 1913 - 326 pages
...surf of Los Muertos which is beating in my ears. CARGOES QUINQUIREME of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo...amethysts, Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores. 220 Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March... | |
 | 1913 - 536 pages
...coins and gems, doubloons and precious stones, gathered on clandestine raids and then cunningly re-set. Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus, Dipping...amethysts, Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores. Clandestine — because, buried with them, is a solemn declaration that the purpose of the store was... | |
 | 1913 - 904 pages
...is Masefield's short lyric called "Cargoes," which begins Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo...peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine, and recognise in it the rhythms of Meredith's "Love in a Valley." This was Kipling's trick — to fill... | |
 | 1913 - 786 pages
...is Masefield's short lyric called "Cargoes," which begins Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedar wood, and sweet white wine, and recognise in it the rhythms of Meredith's "Love in a Valley."... | |
 | 1914 - 404 pages
...or The Widow in the Bye Street is evident at a glance : "Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo...moidores. "Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke-stack, Butting through the channel in the mad March days, With a cargo of Tyne coal, Road-rails,... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1914 - 442 pages
...consciously the beauty, and the power, and the perfection of words as in his wonderful "Cargoes" — Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus, Dipping...amethysts, Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores — he is quick to make you feel that beauty — or at least impressiveness — is bound for him in... | |
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