 | Edward Clarkson - English poetry - 1830 - 202 pages
...Sea, And on her back ten thousand thousand waves, Like wings of wrath, are swelling as they rise ! Above, the rocky clouds are wildly clash'd, Till darkness...from the clouds ! Alone upon the leaping billows, lo I What/ear/w/ Image works its way t A ship ! Shapeless and wild, as by the storm begot ; Her sails... | |
 | Arts - 1830 - 824 pages
...Who can resist the wrapt illusion conveyed in a strain of eloquence hitherto unknown to poetry ! " Alone upon the leaping billows, lo ! What fearful...works its way ? A ship ! Shapeless and wild, as by the stürm beyot, Her sails dishevell'd, and her massy farm Disfigur'd, yet tremendously sublime; Prowless... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1834 - 264 pages
...Sea, And on her back ten thousand thousand waves, Like wings of wrath, are swelling as they rise ! Above, the rocky clouds are wildly clash'd, Till darkness quickens into light! and fierce And far, as though the universe obey'd, Monarch of sound, the Thunder's mandate rings, Rattling the heavens... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - Christian life - 1836 - 340 pages
...sea, And on her back ten thousand thousand waves, Like wings of wrath, are swelling as they rise ! Above the rocky clouds are wildly clash'd, Till darkness quickens into light ! and fierce And far, as though the universe obey'd, Monarch of sound, the thunder's mandate rings, Rattling the heavens... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...Hope looks onward through a tear, Counting the weary hours that keep her here. SOUTHEY. THE SHIPWRECK. ALONE upon the leaping billows, lo ! What fearful image works its way ? A ship ! Shapeless and wild * * * Her sails dishevell'd, and her massy form Disflgur'd, yet tremendously sublime : Prowless and... | |
 | James Francis Cobb - 1883 - 346 pages
...of them might say or do to him in consequence. CHAPTER XXTT. THE WRECK — A NOBLE SELF-SACRIFICE. M Alone upon the leaping billows, lo ! What fearful image works its way ? a ship 1 Shapeless and wild . . . Her sails dishevelled and her massy form Disfigured, but tremendously sublime... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1835 - 336 pages
...sea, And on her back ten thousand thousand waves, Like wings of wrath, are swelling as they rise ! Above the rocky clouds are wildly clash'd, Till darkness quickens into light ! and fierce And far, as though the universe obey'd, Monarch of sound, the thunder's mandate rings, Rattling the heavens... | |
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And darkens, as the ocean chaos did Beneath the spirit-shadow of her God ! — Again ! again ! the congregated Winds Unroll their voices, — they have roused the Sea, And on her back ten thousand thousand waves, Like wings of wrath, are swelling as they... 