 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
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 314 pages
...short. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell ! Then shrieked the timid, and stood still lln; brave; Then some leaped overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their (f rave ; And the sea yawned around her like a hell. 246 POEMS OF PLACES. And first one universal... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 232 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,...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 Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 208 pages
...Pentameters, rhyming three and three alternately, followed by a couplet : — 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... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...and then a lurch to port, And going down head-foremost — sunk, in short. 2. 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,... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - Archaeology - 1878 - 640 pages
...hopelessly in the watery abyss, reminding one forcibly of Byron's lines — "Then rose from Pea to sky the wild farewell ; Then shrieked the timid and...stood still the brave. Then some leaped overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate the grave." Above is an appropriate motto, "Come, see, live, etc."... | |
 | English poetry - 1879 - 314 pages
...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 first one universal shriek there rushed,... | |
 | Edmund John Leathes - Actors - 1880 - 352 pages
...KING KAMEHAMEHA THE PIFT TOWN AND COUNTRY PALACES — STEWED PUPPY, A ROYA " 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 sacked with her the whirling... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...shipwreck is described in this canto with a power second only to Falconer : 52. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shrieked the timid,...brave, — Then some leaped overboard with dreadful veil, As eager to anticipate their grave; 53. At intervals there gushed, Accompanied with a convulsive... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 826 pages
...familiar, and now Death was here. . . . Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shrieked ihe 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,... | |
 | sir Duncan Macgregor - 1880 - 108 pages
...The scene of horror that now presented itself baffles all description ; — " Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell ; Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave." The upper deck was covered with between six and seven hundred human beings, many of whom, from previous... | |
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