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His candles guide her with pomp funereal flaring,   Out of the gulfy dark to the bier whereon he lies.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean

Among the trees Tiber, that beauteous river, with his gulfy rapids and the burden of his yellow sand, breaks into the main.

From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus

The forces last in fair array succeed, Which blameless Glaucus and Sarpedon lead The warlike bands that distant Lycia yields, Where gulfy Xanthus foams along the fields.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

The well-pleased stars   Threw quivering smiles across the gulfy skies, The white aurora flashed great scimitars   From north to zenith; and again my guide   Full turned on me his face.

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George

Now at their native realms the Greeks arrived; All who the wars of ten long years survived; And 'scaped the perils of the gulfy main.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander