The shipwreck, a poem by W. Falconer, with a sketch of his lifeOliver & Boyd, 1811 - 135 pagina's |
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Albert aloft anguish Arion beneath billows blast bloom boatswain bosom bowsprit brails Candia Canto canvas charms confin'd cords crew cruel Dædalus dæmons danger death deck deep distress doom'd dreadful Epaminondas eternal eyes fair faithless Falconera fatal Fate flaming flies foresail gale glides glow Greece groan heart Heaven helm High o'er hope horror hostile hour James Watt kindling leeward Lemnos maid mainsail mast melt mizen mournful Muses numbers pain pale Palemon PALEMON'S STORY perils plain prow rage reef renown'd roar rocks Rodmond roll ropes Rous'd ruin sacred sail sailors Scamander scene scudding seamen secret serene shade ship ship's SHIPWRECK shore side SIEGE OF CANDIA skies soft soon soul Stay-sails stern storm strain surge sweet tale tempest terror thou thro thundering tide toil topsails trembling vale veer vessel voice wandering watery wave weep WILLIAM FALCONER wind wing wound yard youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 7 - Thence to fair Italy her course pursued; Had left behind Trinacria's burning isle, And visited the margin of the Nile: And now, that winter deepens round the Pole, The circling voyage hastens to its goal; They, blind to Fate's inevitable law, No dark event to blast their hope foresaw, But from gay Venice soon expect to steer For Britain's coast, and dread no perils near...
Pagina 90 - Beneath her beak the floating ruins lie ; The foremast totters, unsustain'd on high: And now the ship, fore-lifted by the sea, Hurls the tall fabric backward o'er her lee; While, in the general wreck, the faithful stay Drags the main-topmast from its post away.
Pagina 25 - The glassy ocean hush'd forgets to roar, But trembling murmurs on the sandy shore : And lo ! his surface, lovely to behold, Glows in the west, a sea of living gold ! While, all above, a thousand liveries gay The skies with pomp ineffable array. Arabian sweets perfume the happy plains; Above, beneath, around, enchantment reigns...
Pagina 88 - Tempest's wings the Isle she past : With longing eyes, and agony of mind, The Sailors view this refuge left behind ; Happy to bribe with INDIA'S richest ore A safe accession to that barren Shore...
Pagina 98 - At once cut off from fortune, life, and love ! Far other scenes must soon present my sight. That lie deep-buried yet in tenfold night— Ah ! wretched father of a wretched son, Whom thy paternal prudence has undone ; How will remembrance of this blinded care Bend down thy head with anguish, and despair...
Pagina 89 - He guides the unhappy victim to the shroud : " Hie thee aloft, my gallant friend ! " he cries ; " Thy only succour on the mast relies.
Pagina 99 - I struggled life and this alone to save. " My soul, that fluttering hastens to be free, Would yet a train of thoughts impart to thee, But strives in vain ; the chilling ice of death Congeals my blood, and...
Pagina 67 - ... of navigation' may conceive a clearer idea of a ship's state .when trying, and of the change of her situation to that of scudding, I have quoted a part of the explanation of those articles as they appear in the ** Dictionary of the Marine.
Pagina 55 - Too soon the eventful moments haste away. Here perseverance, with each help of art, Must join the boldest efforts of the heart ; These only now their misery can relieve, These only now a dawn of safety give. While o'er the quivering deck from van to rear k Broad surges roll in terrible career, Rodmond, Arion, and a chosen crew, This office in the face of death pursue.
Pagina 93 - Albert grasps the floating mast. His soul could yet sustain this mortal blow, But droops, alas ! beneath superior...