Read full poem →Winds that make moan and triumph, skies that bend,
Thunders, and sound of tides in gulf and firth,
Spake through his spirit of speech, whose death should send
Dictionary Entry
An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary.
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Poetry examples for “firth”
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Read full poem →earliest texts. My best thanks are due to Mr.
C. H. Firth, who has kindly read most of the
proof-sheets and made many valuable sugges-
Read full poem →George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations_, 1875. I have examined the
texts of eds. 1606, 1613, 1629, 1637; and my friend Mr. C. H. Firth has
examined for me the Bodleian copy of ed. 1600, in the margin of which
Read full poem →Were over, and the morning was in sight--
I cried, but in strange places, steppe and firth
I have not seen, through alien grief and mirth;
Read full poem →Perished upon the silence keen.
The last light filled a narrow firth
Among the clouds. I stood serene,
Read full poem →Eldridge & Co., 278 Main St.
Firth, H. H. & Co., 110 State St.
Gondolf, M. 46 State St.
Read full poem →But, in a voyage from Norway, a shipwreck on the north coast seems
as probable as either in the Firth of Forth, or Tay; and the ballad
states the disaster to have taken place out of sight of land.