 | John Carr Badeley - 1851 - 68 pages
...eternal punishment they dread ! It reminds us of the desperation pourtrayed by Byron in a shipwreck. " Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell, Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, And some leap'd overboard with furious yell, As eager to anticipate their grave I" Some seek it simply... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave,1Then some leaped overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ;* And the sea yawned around her* like a hell, And down she sucked with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...o'er ; And he, and his eight hundred, shall plough the waves no more. COWPER. SHIP SINKING AT SEA. THEN rose from sea to sky the wild farewell,— Then...yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ; And the sea yawned around her like a hell, And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples... | |
 | Commander in the Navy, Sketches - Tracts - 1853 - 192 pages
...with it, and leaving the mizenmast alone standing. It was a moment of extreme horror and dismay. " Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell! Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave!" It was a moment, stamped as it were with a branding-iron on the memory of each one who survived it,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...sea to sky the wild farewell, Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave ; Then some leaped overboard, with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ; And the sea yawned round her like a hell, And down she sucked with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...crews ; She gave a heel, and then a lurch to port, And, going down head foremost — sunk, in short. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — • Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave,Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ; And the sea... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...eave, With just enough of life to feel its pain, And deem that it wat oav'd, perhaps in vain. Byron. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell, Then...some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to antieipate their grave ; And the sea yawn'd around her like a hell, And down she suek'd with her the... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...eave, Wsth just enough of Ufe to feel its pain, And deem that it was sav'd, perhaps in vain. Byron. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell, Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the hгате, Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to antieipate their grave ; And... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - Canada - 1855 - 574 pages
...sea to sky the wild farewell. Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leaped overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave; And the sea yawned around her like a hell. And down she sucked with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples... | |
 | Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...to sky the wild farewell— Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave;— Then some leaped overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ; And the sea yawned around her like a hell, And down she sucked with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples... | |
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Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave — Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave... 
