 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
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869 - 88 pages
...translation of Margante Maggiore and his Don Juan are the best English examples of it. 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 round her like a hell, And down she sucked with her the whirling wave,... | |
 | John C. Symons - Methodist Church - 1870 - 444 pages
...saved ; it was now too late, and the boat with its precious freight pushed off. " 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 yawn'd around her like a hell, And down she sucked with her the whirling... | |
 | Gerald Hastings (fict.name.) - 1870 - 286 pages
...every face and every heart; and then a horrible silence, only broken as— " There rose from sea and sky the wild farewell, Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave; And the sea yawn'd round them like a hell, And down with her she sucked the whirling wave. then all... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...desolate deep : twelve days had Pear Been their familiar, and now Death was here. 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... | |
 | Thomas Milner - Australia - 1872 - 684 pages
...prevented.' Lord Byron, his grandson, is supposed to have had this passage in view in the lines : ' Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave...overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.' Byron sailed in the Dolphin, in 1764, the first vessel in our navy that was sheathed... | |
 | Sir James Allanson Picton - Liverpool (England) - 1873 - 752 pages
...unfortunate passengers realising all the horrors which despair could inflict : 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 boat broke up by degrees. The poop was the first to give way, with between thirty... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1873 - 348 pages
...— Been their familiar, — and now — Death — was here 1 Then — rose — (from the sea) — the wild farewell, — Then — shrieked — the timid,...— (with dreadful yell,) As eager — to anticipate — their grave ; And the sea — yawned around her — (like a hell,) And down — she sucked with... | |
 | James Brown (editor, of Elgin.) - English literature - 1873 - 406 pages
...shipwreck of the London forcibly brought to my mind Lord Byron's description — Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the braveThen some leap'd overboard, with dreadful yell, A3 eager to anticipate their grave ; And the sea... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 456 pages
...gaze the rush of the iron monster that was about to pass crashing over them ? ' Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell ; Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave ; Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave I And the sea yawn'd around... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 484 pages
...gaze the rush of the iron monster that was about to pass crashing over them ? ' Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell ; Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave ; Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave 1 And the sea yawn'd around... | |
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