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" And first one universal shriek there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder ; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows ; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash,... "
A guide to Southport, North Meols - Page 88
by Thomas Kirkland Glazebrook - 1825 - 80 pages
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Book of the Poets: The Modern Poets of the Nineteenth Century

American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows ; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek — the bubbling cry Of some strong...
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The Children's Magazine and Missionary Repository, Volume 19

Children's literature - 1856 - 1026 pages
...there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind, and the remorseless dash Of billows; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer...
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The Prose Workd of Mrs. Ellis: The poetry of life. Pictures of private life ...

Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1844 - 522 pages
...there rnsh'd, " Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash "Of echoing thunder ; and then all was hush'd, "Save the wild wind, and the remorseless dash " Of billows : but at intervale there gush'd, "Accompanied with a convulsive splash, "A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry...
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The Select Works of Mrs. Ellis ...

Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1845 - 552 pages
...there rush'd, " Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash "Of echoing thunder; and then all was hnsh'd, "Save the wild wind, and the remorseless dash "Of billows: but at intervals there gnsh'd, "Accompanied with a convulsive splash, " A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry "Of some strong...
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The British orator

Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...there rush'd Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows; but at intervals there gush'd Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry, Of some strong swimmer...
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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ;8 And the sea yawned around her8 like a hell, And down she sucked with her the whirling wave, Like...remorseless dash Of billows ; but at intervals there gushed,4 Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer...
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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...grave ; And the sea yawned around her like a hell, And down she suckeil with her the whirling wwa, ea and the sky, Lay like a load on my weary eye, And...they; The look with which they looked on me Had never daeu Of billows ; but at intervals there gushed, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek,...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder ; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash . Of billows ; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek — the bubbling cry Of some strong...
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Second collection of instructive extracts: no.vi of a new series of school-books

Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder ; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer...
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Select specimens of English prose [ed.] by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die. And first a universal shriek there rushed, Louder than the loud...and then all was hushed, Save the wild wind and the remoresless dash Of billows ; but at intervals there gushed, Accompanied with a convulsive splash,...
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