Ship. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Ship


As we stood there, waiting on the strand Behold, a huge great vessel to us came, Dancing upon the waters back to land, As if it scorn’d the danger of the same. Yet was it but a wooden frame and frail, Glued together with some subtile matter; Yet had it arms and wings, and head and tail, And life to move itself upon the water. Spenser.—Colin Clout, Vol. V. Line 212.	1
She walks the waters like a thing of life And seems to dare the elements to strife. Byron.—The Corsair, Canto I. Stanza 3.	2
[Adapted from Spenser, in whose mine Byron found the ore, fused it in the furnace of his own genius, applied his magnetic hammer to the casting, and fashioned it to its present beauty.]	3
Upon the gale she stoop’d her side, And bounded o’er the swelling tide, As she were dancing home; The merry seamen laugh’d to see Their gallant ship so lustily Furrow the green-sea foam. Scott.—Marmion, Canto II. Stanza 1.	4
And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand, And the sound of a voice that is still. Tennyson.—Break, Break, V. 3.	5