 Then rose from 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...  A guide to Southport, North Meols - Page 88by Thomas Kirkland Glazebrook - 1825 - 80 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1862 - 604 pages
...officers, may have suggested the lines of Byron, so close is the correspondence : " Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell, Then shrieked the timid and...overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave." The Commodore's flag-ship, the Centurion, alone survived, in which he went round the... | |
 | James Caughey - Methodist Church - 1844 - 344 pages
...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 shrieked the timid, and...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...deep : twelve day> had Femr Been their familiar, and now Death was here. * » * Then rose from sea to ky the wild G1. bnvc — Then some leaped overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ; And the... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. ******** Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell, Then shrieked the timid —...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... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1847 - 614 pages
...but it is an imperfect and unfinished picture after all. It runs thus : — " Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell, Then shrieked the timid, and...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... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...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 shrieked the timid, and...overboard, with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave; r And the sea yawned round her like a hell, And down she sucked with her the whirling... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...Dittiyguish between the fuilowing vrjrds : Sky and Skyn. Wave and waive. Die and Dye. THEN rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave,1 — Then some leaped overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ;8 And... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...in the Atlantic, and the "small island" referred to is Britain. THE SHIPWRECK. THEN rose from sea to sky the wild farewell, Then shrieked the timid, and...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,... | |
 | Seafaring life - 1854 - 504 pages
...forty wretched beings hurried through the foaming flood into an eternal world. " Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell, Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave." Those who retained any degree of sensibility endeavored. to catch at whatever was floating within their... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - Canada - 1855 - 574 pages
...Ships. BY ED ASHE, Lieut. RN, FRAS. $c., [Read before the Society, Nov., 1854.] "Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell. Then shrieked the timid, and...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,... | |
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