The shipwreck, a poem. With additional notes, and a sketch of the author's life. With engravings by R. Dodd1811 |
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anguish ARION arms beneath billows Blast bloom bosom Bowsprit brails breast breeze CANDIA Capstan charms confin'd cords Crew dæmons danger death deck Deep DESCRIPTION distress doom'd dreadful eternal extended eyes faithless fatal Fate flies fore Foresail gale glassy Ocean glow GREECE groan handspike heart Heaven helm High o'er hope hostile hour larboard leeward Line Maid Mainsail mast Master's Midshipman Mizen mournful Muse night NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS numbers pain PALEMON PALEMON'S STORY perils plac'd plain Plate prow rage reef roar rocks RODMOND roll ropes round ruin sacred sail Sailors scene scudding Seamen SECOND CANTO serene shade Ship's SHIPWRECK shore side SIEGE OF CANDIA skies soft soon soul stand Stay-sails Storm strains Surge sweet swelling Tack tale Tempest thou thundering tide Topsails trembling vale veer voice wandering watery wave wheel WILLIAM FALCONER wind Windlass wings wounded wreck yard Yard-arm youth
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Страница xxxv - Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Tears her strong bottom on the marble rock. Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shuddering roll their eyes In wild despair; while yet another stroke With deep convulsion rends the solid oak; Till like the mine, in whose infernal cell The lurking demons of destruction dwell, At length asunder torn, her frame divides, And crashing spreads in ruin o'er the tides.
Страница 104 - In vain, alas! the sacred shades of yore Would arm the mind with philosophic lore; In vain they'd teach us, at the latest breath, To smile serene amid the pangs of death.
Страница 108 - His lovely daughter, left without a friend Her innocence to succour and defend, By youth and indigence set forth a prey To lawless guilt, that flatters to betray — While these reflections rack his feeling mind...
Страница 103 - The vessel, while the dread event draws nigh, Seems more impatient o'er the waves to fly. Fate spurs her on. Thus, issuing from afar, Advances to the sun some blazing star; And, as it feels th' attraction's kindling force, Springs onward with accelerated course.
Страница 32 - Th' auspicious omens of an eastern breeze. Now radiant Vesper leads the starry train, And night slow draws her veil o'er land and main ; Round the charg'd bowl the sailors form a ring ; By turns recount the wond'rous tale, or sing, As love or battle, hardships of the main, Or genial wine, awake the homely strain : Then some the watch of night alternate keep, The rest lie buried in oblivious sleep.
Страница 104 - Maro's art To wake to sympathy the feeling heart ; Like him the smooth and mournful verse to dress In all the pomp of exquisite distress, Then too severely taught by cruel fate, To share in all the perils I relate, Then might I with...
Страница 38 - Here, the bold native of her cliffs above, Perch'd by the martial maid the bird of Jove ; There, on the watch, sagacious of his prey, With eyes of fire, an English mastiff lay. Yonder fair Commerce stretch'd her winged sail ; Here frown'd the god that wakes the living gale — High o'er the poop the flattering winds unfurl'd Th' imperial flag that rules the watery world.
Страница 104 - For now the audacious seas insult the yard; High o'er the ship they throw a horrid shade, And o'er her burst in terrible cascade. Uplifted on...
Страница 8 - Call forth th' avenging chiefs of Greece to arms ; No fair Penelopes enchant the eye, For whom contending kings are proud to die : Here sullen beauty sheds a twilight ray, While sorrow bids her vernal bloom decay : Those charms, so long renown'd in classic strains, Had dimly shone on Albion's happier plains...
Страница 36 - The immortal shield from Neptune she received, When first her head above the waters heaved. Loose floated o'er her limbs an azure vest, A figured scutcheon glitter'd on her breast ; There from one parent soil, for ever young, The blooming rose and hardy thistle sprung. Around her head an oaken wreath was seen, Inwove with laurels of unfading green. Such was the sculptured prow ; from van to rear The...