Big with the burthen of her tribes she teemeth, circled by whelming waves that rage and rave; all noble races of such valiant breast, that each may justly boast itself the best.
Unequal is the fight, Beneath the whelming element.
So penal sufferings they endure For ancient crime, to make them pure; Some hang aloft in open view, For winds to pierce them through and through, While others purge their guilt deep-dyed In burning fire or whelming tide.
Why should parents labor to amass wealth enough, and much of course it required, to send their daughters to Europe to receive their educations, if they were to return only to become the victims of an all-whelming concubinism!
Perhaps on some wild shore he may be cast, Where on their prey barbarians howling rush, Oh, fiercer they, than is the whelming blast!
Then rolls the tide Of deep Forgetfulness, whelming the pride Of man, his shattered and forsaken bowers, His noiseless cities, and his prostrate towers.
II It is a sea-gate, trembling with the blast Of powers that from the infinite sea-plain roll, A whelming tide.
Hast thou not sense thy state to know, Engulfed in seas of whelming woe; Sick as I am with grief and pain My lips can scarce a laugh restrain To see thee hail with ill-timed joy A peril mighty to destroy.
The ocean’s bed was bare and dry, The moon had fallen from the sky, And all the world lay still and dead, With whelming darkness overspread.
Alas, the floods of sorrow roll With whelming force upon my soul: So gathers the descending rain In the deep hollow of the plain.
Reft of his love, the royal chief, Weighed down beneath his whelming grief, Desponding made his brother share His grievous burden of despair.
Why do I see thee in the tide Of whelming thought to-day?
I sink, O tamer of thy foes, Deep in the sea of whelming woes.
He calls me,” in her wrath she cried, “And all my flood shall sweep And whirl him in its whelming tide To hell’s profoundest deep.
Thy peers, with keen far-reaching eyes, Spend not their hours in ceaseless sighs; In dire distress, in whelming ill Their manly looks are hopeful still.
In death as life be thou our guide, And bear us through death's whelming tide.
My Father, grant thy presence nigh To bear aloft my sinking soul, When sorrow o'er my pathway here In widely whelming waves doth roll.
He pays the penalty of his over-whelming reputation: his fame is chiefly in the mouths of those who know him not at all, and use their hats for speaking-trumpets.
Misfortune waites aduantage to entrap The man most warie in her whelming lap.
His treasured stores those cormarants consume, Whose bones, defrauded of a regal tomb And common turf, lie naked on the plain, Or doom'd to welter in the whelming main.
Toss'd through the void illimitable space Or if dismounted from the rapid cloud, Me with his whelming wave let Ocean shroud!
The trembling crowds shall see the sudden shade Of whelming mountains overhang their head!
But should the powers that o'er mankind preside Decree to plunge us in the whelming tide, Better to rush at once to shades below Than linger life away, and nourish woe.
I bare, my thunders guide, To dash the offenders in the whelming tide.
Nay, in that whelming admission's very tide, sweeping upon her from envisagement of Harry and bearing her deliciously upon its flood, there had come a thought as strong with wine as that was sweet with honey.
She noticed with a large whelming of pity how very small her mother seemed to have grown She was always small, but now--much smaller, fallen in, very fragile.
There was to be sudden, swift whelming when the time came, not intermittent outrage.
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