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" Build me straight, O worthy Master, Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle! "
American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 55
1850
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 69

1851 - 786 pages
...part of the process of the building of the ship :— " With oaken brace and copper band Lay the rndder on the sand, That, like a thought, should have control...the whole ; And near it the anchor, whose giant hand Should reach down and grapple with the land, And immovable, and fast Hold the great ship against the...
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Poems, Volume 2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...THE SEASIDE. THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP. " BUILD me straight, O worthy Master ! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle ! " The merchant's word Delighted the Master heard ; For his heart was b bis work, and the heart Giveth...
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Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association ..., Volume 13

Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1858 - 580 pages
...as that of Florence Nightingale the gentle, and Henry Haveloek the brave — " Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle—" your little hammer or axe may not aid much, but it is a ministry which the Lord calls for, and that...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69

1851 - 856 pages
...excursion, but here is a noble description, of some part of the process of the building of the ship : — " With oaken brace and copper band Lay the rudder on...the whole ; And near it the anchor, whose giant hand Should reach down and grapple with theland, And immovable, and fast Hold the great ship against the...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 23

1851 - 608 pages
...noble description of some part of the process of the building of the ship : — 1851.] June, " \Vilh oaken brace and copper band Lay the rudder on the...the whole ; And near it the anchor, whose giant hand Should reach down and grapple with the land, And immovable, and fast Hold the great ship against the...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69

1851 - 794 pages
...of the process of the bnilding of the ship :— " With oaken brace and copper band 1лy the rndder on the sand, That, like a thought, should have control...the whole ; And near it the anchor, whose giant hand Should reach down and grapple with the land, And immovable, and fast Hold the great «hip against tho...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69

1851 - 812 pages
...— 1 With oaken brace and copper band Lay the milder on the sand, Thrtt, like a thought, should hare control Over the movement of the whole ; And near it the anchor, whose giant hand Should reach down and grapple with the land. And immovable, and fast Hold the great ihip against the...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...THE SEASIDE. THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP. " BUILD me straight, 0 worthy Master ! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle ! " The merchant's word Delighted the Master heard ; For his heart was in his work, and the heart Giveth...
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Voices of the Night, and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 258 pages
...then The song of the Master and his men : " Build me straight, O worthy Master, Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle ! " That, like a thought, should have control Over the movement of the whole ; And near it the anchor,...
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Poems, Volume 2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...The song of the Master and his men : — " Build me straight, O worthy Master, Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And...hand Would reach down and grapple with the land, And immovable and fast Hold the great ship against the bellowing blast J And at the bows an image stood,...
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