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" Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought, His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt... "
The Minor Poems of William Cowper of the Inner Temple - Page 47
by William Cowper - 1818 - 108 pages
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Poems, by William Cowper, Esq: Together with His Posthumous Poetry ..., Volume 3

William Cowper - 1841 - 324 pages
...She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock. His sword was in his sheath ; His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down, With twice four hundred...Her timbers yet are sound, And she may float again, Full-charg'd with England's thunder, And plough the distant main. But Kempenfelt is gone, His victories...
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Poems. With a Biographical and Critical Introduction by the Rev ..., Volume 2

William Cowper - English poetry - 1841 - 358 pages
...tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; His sword was in its sheath ; His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred...Her timbers yet are sound, And she may float again Full-charged with England's thunder, And plough the distant main. But Kempenfelt is gone, His victories...
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Poetry for Schools: Designed for Reading and Recitation : the Whole Selected ...

Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...sprang no fatal leak'; She ran upon no rock. ' His sword was in his sheath ; « His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down, With twice four hundred...with England's thunder, And plough the distant main. But Kempenfelt is gone, His victories are o'er ; And he and his eight hundred, Shall plough the wave...
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The old sea captain [by G. Mogridge].

George Mogridge - 1842 - 346 pages
...She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down, With twice four hundred...with England's thunder, And plough the distant main : But Kempenfelt is gone, His victories are o'er ; And he and his eight hundred Shall plough the wave...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 3

William Cowper - 1843 - 406 pages
...tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; His sword was in its sheath ; His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred...with England's thunder, And plough the distant main. But Kempenfelt is gone, His victories are o'er ; And he and his eight hundred Shall plough the wave...
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Thirty Years from Home; Or A Voice from the Main Deck: Being the Experience ...

Samuel Leech - Adventure and adventurers - 1843 - 358 pages
...Sh<> ran up )n no rork. His sword was in its sheath ; His fingers, held the pen , When Kempenfeldt went down. With twice four hundred men. Weigh the...with England's thunder, And plough the distant main. But Kempenfeldt is gone, His victories are o'er; And he, and his eight hundred, Shall plough the wave...
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The universal class-book: a ser. of reading lessons

Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...leak ; She ran upon no rock. " His sword was in his sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfeldt went down With twice four hundred men. " Weigh the...sound, And she may float again, Full charged with English thunder, And plough the distant main. " But Kempenfeldt is gone ; His victories are o'er ;...
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Proceedings, Volume 38

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 pages
...She sprang no fatal leak, She ran upon no rock. " His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred...Her timbers yet are sound, And she may float again, Kull charged with England's thunder, And plough the distant main. " But Kempenfelt is gone, His victories...
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Harvey and Dartons' juvenile museum of entertainment

Harvey and Darton - 1845 - 254 pages
...(some of whose beautiful verses you can already understand,) when he heard the sad tale, thus wrote : " Her timbers yet are sound, And she may float again,...with England's thunder, And plough the distant main. " But Kempenfelt is gone, His victories are o'er, And he, and his eight hundred Shall plough the wave...
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Poems of William Cowper, Esq., with a New Memoir: Compiled from Johnson ...

William Cowper - 1846 - 310 pages
...She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock. His sword was in his sheath ; His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down. With twice four hundred...Her timbers yet are sound, And she may float again, Full-charg'd with England's thunder, And plough the distant main. But Kempenfelt is gone, His victories...
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