 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Bibliography - 1828 - 590 pages
...which are carried on by that mystic power. ' Alone upon the leaping billows, lo! What fearful linage works its way ? A ship ! Shapeless and wild, as by the Storm begot; Her sails disheveli'd, and her massy form Disfigured, yet tremendously sublime : Prowless and helmless through... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edward Clarkson - English poetry - 1830 - 202 pages
...like daggers 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 dishevell'd and her massy form Disfigur'd, yet tremendously sublime : Prowless and helmless through the waves she rocks, And writhes,... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1834 - 264 pages
...long-repeated roar ! While ever and anon pale lightnings gleam, And flash like armory of waving fire ! Alone upon the leaping billows, lo ! What fearful...ship ! Shapeless and wild, as by the Storm begot; I DEATH. 21 Her sails dishevell'd, and her massy form • Disfigured, yet tremendously sublime : Prowless... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - Christian life - 1836 - 340 pages
...repeated roar! While ever and anon pale lightnings gleam, And flash like armoury of waving fire ! p Alone upon the leaping billows, lo ! What fearful...through the waves she rocks, And writhes, as if in drowning agony ! Like valour when amid o'erwhelming foes, The vessel combats with the battling waves,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | J. Saxby Wryde - Lighthouses - 1913 - 462 pages
...its way ? A ship ! Shapeless and wild . . . Her sails dishevelled and her massy form Disfigured, but tremendously sublime ; Prowless and helmless through...waves she rocks And writhes as if in agony ! like her Who to the last avail o'er starving foes, Sinks with a bloody struggle into death, — The vessel... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1835 - 336 pages
...repeated roar ! While ever and anon pale lightnings gleam, And flash like armoury of waving fire ! Alone upon the leaping billows, lo ! What fearful...through the waves she rocks, And writhes, as if in drowning agony ! Like valour when amid o'erwhelming foes, The vessel combats with the battling waves,... | |
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Alone upon the leaping billows, lo! "What fearful Image works its way? A ship! Shapeless and wild, as by the Storm begot ; Her sails dishevell'd, and her massy form Disfigured, yet tremendously sublime: Prowless and helmless through the waves she rocks,... 