 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 Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 824 pages
...deep : twelve days had Fear Been their familiar, and now Death was here. . . . Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brar*— Then some leaped overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ; And the... | |
 | James Booth (head master of the Caledonian schools, Liverpool) - 1881 - 232 pages
...desolate deep : twelve days had Fear 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... | |
 | 1881 - 300 pages
...swallowed up the stern — the fore part was left 'impaled upon the rock. " ' Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shrieked the timid...overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave. Then all was hushed, Save the wild wind and the ' remorseless dash Of billows ; but at... | |
 | English poets - English poetry - 1889 - 596 pages
...prince — or live a slave — Thy choice is most ignobly brave ! THE SHIPWRECK. 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 ; And the sea yawn'd around... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 pages
...mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth. A Ship Foundering. 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 - 1882 - 262 pages
...prevented.' Lord Byron, his grandson, is supposed to have hail 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... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 pages
...drew the three up and over the side of the big boat. WILLIAM BLACK. FOUNDEKING. 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... | |
 | Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1857 - 494 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 around her like a hell ; And down she sucked with her the whirling... | |
 | Blackwood William and sons - 1883 - 268 pages
...and then a lurch to port, And going down head-foremost, — sunk, in short. 3. 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... | |
 | John Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 426 pages
...climax in the following stanza, describing a ship going down head foremost : — " 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... | |
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