At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies, Volumen1Harper & Bros., 1871 - 465 páginas |
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amid asphalt beautiful believe beneath birds blazing Boca boughs brown bush cacao called Caripe civilization cliff Cloth cloud Cocorite colored Coolie cultivation Dâaga dark English estates eyes fancy feet high Fer-de-lance flowers forest French fresh fruit garden gray green Grenada growing Guacharo Guadaloupe Gulf Gulf of Paria half head hills horses huge island ladies lake land least leaves light look Lucia mangrove Martinique miles monkeys Montserrat Moriche palms mountain negro never night northern Obeah once Orinoco palm pitch Pitch Lake plants Port of Spain probably purple rich rock roots round San Josef savanna seemed seen shade ship shore side soil Spaniards Spanish spot stem stood strange surf tall thing tree Trinidad tropic vegetation Virgin Gorda West Indian West Indies whole wild wind wonder wood yellow
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Página 25 - The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.
Página 17 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...
Página 307 - Tis the noon of autumn's glow, When a soft and purple mist Like a vaporous amethyst, Or an air-dissolved star Mingling light and fragrance, far From the curved horizon's bound To the point of Heaven's profound, Fills the overflowing sky; And the plains that silent lie Underneath, the leaves unsodden Where the infant Frost has trodden With his morning-winged feet, Whose bright print is gleaming yet...
Página 307 - The rough, dark-skirted wilderness; The dun and bladed grass no less, Pointing from this hoary tower In the windless air...
Página 448 - If we only live, We too will go to sea in a Sieve, — To the hills of the Chankly Bore !' Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.
Página 18 - Here die I, Richard Grenvile, with a joyful and quiet mind; for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought, fighting for his country, queen, religion, and honour: my soul willingly departing from this body, leaving behind the lasting fame of having behaved as every valiant soldier is in his duty bound to do.
Página 465 - Assistant Secretary and Keeper of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain ; and Revised for the Use of American Readers.