 To seek new worlds for gold, for praise, for glory, To try desire, to try love severed far, When I was gone, she sent her memory, More strong than were ten thousand ships of war ; To call me back, to leave great honour's thought, To leave my friends,...  Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography - Page 61by William Stebbing - 1891 - 413 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1889 - 592 pages
...was gone, she sent her memory, More strong than were ten thousand ships of war, ' To call me hack, to leave great honour's thought, To leave my friends,...purpose I so long had sought, And hold both cares and comfort in contempt. ' Such heat in ice, such fire in frost remained, Such trust in doubt, such comfort... | |
 | North Carolina Literary and Historical Association - North Carolina - 1917 - 600 pages
...severed far, When I was gone, she sent her memory, More strong than were ten thousand ships of war; To call me back, to leave great honour's thought,...attempt; To leave the purpose I so long had sought, And leave both cares and comforts in contempt. This sense of a destiny connected with the sea is apparent,... | |
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