And down from marble terraces Veiled ladies slowly pass, And, entering antique barges, Glide down the streets of glass; And eyes filled with the dew and fire Of their own midnight sky, Gleam full on me, as silently The gondolas float by.

After that we started for Poughkeepsie and that was as far as he was going to tow us, because he had to tow a barge down to New York.

They are connected with a series of locks, which render the stream navigable from the sea; but one rarely sees a barge upon it now, the railway having completely ruined the water traffic, and caused a most elaborate and costly piece of engineering to be practically useless.

So King Angus sent a barge to that ship, and besought that he who sang should be brought to the castle.

Illustration #5 "Roy dived after the key-bar" When we got up to the mill at North Bridgeboro, he got the barge and started downstream with the barge alongside.

To-day they think it much more chic to hire a big barge and drive down to Esbly and have a rousing breakfast and dance in the big hall which every country hotel has for such festivities.

They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide; By land, by water, they renew the charge; They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.

"What have we here, Jacopo?" he demanded, in an under-tone, of the gondolier who steered his own barge.

After three-quarters of an hour's hard rowing the barge approached her side.

"To part with unhackt edges, and bear back our barge undinted.

When they had entered into this covenant together, they went forth to the harbour, and there discovered the barge, even as Gugemar had said.

It was a blowy April day outside, with a gay blue sky in which the white clouds raced, drawing barges of shadow over the earth below.

When Cleopatra's fleet had entered the river, she embarked on board a most magnificent barge which she had constructed for the occasion, and had brought with her across the sea.

In the centre an entrance some two hundred yards across: on the right, a cliff of volcanic sand, interspersed with large boulders hurled from some volcano now silent, where black women, with baskets on their heads, were filling a barge with gravel.

Some of them followed the barge all along the river side; others also ran out of the city to see her coming in.

Displeased with my interruption, he muttered something at my impatience, and at the unseasonableness of my call, and again blew his bugle, though by no means so vigorously as he had before done; after which we gained the barge, and continued our way without farther interruption.

At one they went on board the city barge at Billingsgate, which was most magnificently decorated, and attended by fifty noble barges, belonging to the several companies of the city, with each its own corporation on board; and, for the better regulation of this procession, it was ordered, that each barge should keep twice their lengths asunder.

] Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms, Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dreamby these Three Queens with crowns of gold: and from them rose A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars,

C. begged of them to keep their seats, and hold the barge just there as near as possible.

Then Sir Bedivere bore King Arthur to the water's edge, and fast by the bank hovered a little barge, and there received him three queens with great mourning.

Before St. Lucar they their guns discharge To tell their joy, or to invite a barge; This heard some ships of ours (though out of view), And, swift as eagles, to the quarry flew; 40 So heedless lambs, which for their mothers bleat, Wake hungry lions, and become their meat.

If I was a lord or a bishop, and kept a barge, I would not put a fellow in my livery that had not a wooden leg.'

The whole party with which I was escaped; four left the barge at the Cedar village, above the rapids, and went to Montreal by land; two more were saved by the canoe; the barge's crew, all accustomed to labour, were lost.

We went down yesterday morning, and dined with General Heath, who was so good as to lend us his barge to carry us to Head-Quarters.

At the foot lay the royal barge, in which he embarked with his train.