 ... wounded reels— Again she plunges ! hark ! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock : Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes In wild despair ; while yet another stroke, With strong...  The Shipwreck: A Poem - Pagina xde William Falconer, James Stanier Clarke - 1804 - 220 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | William Falconer - 1868 - 180 pagini
...their eyes In wild despair; while yet another stroke, With strong convulsion rends the solid oak : Ah, Heaven! — behold her crashing ribs divide !...loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide. Oh, were it mine with sacred Maro's art To wake to sympathy the feeling heart, Like him, the smooth... | |
 | William Falconer, Thomas Park - 1809 - 184 pagini
...their eyes In wild despair ; while yet another stroke, With strong convnlsion rends the solid oak : Ah, Heaven! — behold her crashing ribs divide! She loosens, parts, and spreads in. rnin o'er the tide. Oh, were it mine with sacred Maro's art To wake to sympathy the feeling heart,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 332 pagini
...their eyes In wild despair ; while yet another stroke, With strong convulsion rends the solid oak : Ah, Heaven ! — behold her crashing ribs divide !...loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide. Oh, were it mine with sacred Maro's art To wake to sympathy the feeling heart, Like him, the smooth... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 322 pagini
...despair; while yet another stroke, With strong convulsion rends the solid oak : Ah, Heaven!—behold her crashing ribs divide! She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide. Oh, were it mine with sacred Maro's art To wake to sympathy the feeling heart, Like him, the smooth... | |
 | William Falconer - 1822 - 192 pagini
...despair; while yet another stroke, With strong 1 convulsion rends the solid oak : Ah Heaven!—behold her crashing ribs divide! She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide. Oh, were it mine with sacred Maro's art To wake to sympathy the feeling heart, Like him, the smooth... | |
 | William Falconer - 1836 - 306 pagini
...\vitli ill-ma! ' •. n'lini- -lnnliliTitin- rast thrn l With strong convulsion rends the solid oak : Ah Heaven ! — behold her crashing ribs divide !...loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide. Oil, were it mine with sacred Maro's art To wake to sympathy the feeling heart, Like him, the smooth... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagini
...distress— and the brave unselfish piety and generosity with which they meet their fate, when at last The character and attainments. He was born in 1722, and was the schoolfellow of Col Such a subject Falconer justly considered as ' new to epic lore,' but it possessed strong recommendations... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pagini
...distress—and the brave, unselfish piety and generosity with which they met their fate, when at last— The crashing ribs divide— She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide. Such a subject Faleoner justly considered as ' new to epic lore;' but it possessed strong attractions... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pagini
...— and the brave unselfish piety and generosity with which they meet their fate, when at last The ; when the latter drew their pens in controversy, they were often unanswered as Such a subject Falconer justly considered as ' new to epic lore,' but it possessed strong recommendations... | |
 | James Beattie - 1854 - 332 pagini
...their eyes In wild despair ; while yet another stroke With strong convulsion rends the solid oak : Ah, Heaven ! — behold her crashing ribs divide !...loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide. Oh, were it mine with sacred Maro's art, eso To wake to sympathy the feeling heart ; Like him, the... | |
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