The Shipwreck: A Poempublisher, 1808 - 125 pagina's |
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Ægean ALBERT ALBERT'S EXHORTATION anguish appears ARION ATHENS belay beneath billows blast blazoned bloom bosom brails breast breath bursts CANDIA CANTO charms clouds confest Crew cruel danger Death deck Deep dire distress doom dreadful Duke of York EPAMINONDAS eternal eyes faithless FALCONERA Fame fastened fatal Fate flaming flies fore furled Gale glow Greece groan Halyards heart Heaven helm High o'er hope horrors hostile hour kindling leeward LEMNOS light LYCURGUS Maid main-sail mast melt Mizen mournful Muse numbers o'er o'erwhelmed pain PALEMON PALEMON'S HISTORY Peloponnesus plain prow rage reef roar RODMOND roll ropes round ruin sacred Sailors sails SCAMANDER scene scudding Seamen shade Ship ship's shore side skies smile soft soon soul stand Stay-Sail stern Storm strain stream Surge sweet swelling Tempest thou thundering tide toil top-mast Top-Sails trembling Vessel wandering watery wave WILLIAM FALCONER wind windward yard yard-arm youth
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Pagina 114 - Awhile they wait the exhausted waves' retreat, Then climb slow up the beach with hands and feet — O Heaven ! deliver'd by whose sovereign hand Still on destruction's brink they shuddering stand, Receive the languid incense they bestow, That, damp with death, appears not yet to glow ; To thee each soul the warm oblation pays With trembling ardour of unequal praise ; In every heart dismay with wonder strives, And hope the...
Pagina 66 - The envenom'd mantle from his side he tore ; When, stung with burning pain, he strove too late To stop the swift career of cruel fate ; Yet then his heart one ray of hope procured...
Pagina 24 - Thames meandering rolls his ample tide : There live the hope and pleasure of his life, A pious daughter, and a faithful wife : For his return with fond officious care Still every grateful object these prepare : Whatever can allure the smell or sight, Or wake the drooping spirits to delight, " This blooming maid in virtue's path to guide The...
Pagina 108 - O yet confirm my heart, ye powers above, This last tremendous shock of fate to prove ; The tottering frame of reason yet sustain ; Nor let this total ruin whirl my brain. In vain the cords and axes were prepared, For now th...
Pagina 111 - Some, from the main-yard-arm impetuous thrown On marble ridges, die without a groan : Three with Palemon on their skill depend, And from the wreck on oars and rafts descend ; Now on the mountain-wave on high they ride, Then downward plunge beneath the...
Pagina 49 - When orient dews impearl the enamell'd lawn ; Than from his sides in bright suffusion flow, That now with gold empyreal seem to glow; Now in pellucid sapphires meet the view, And emulate the soft celestial hue; Now beam a flaming crimson on the eye, And now assume the purple's deeper dye : But here description clouds each shining ray; What terms of art can nature's powers display...
Pagina 92 - Immortal Athens first, in ruin spread, Contiguous lies at Port Liono's head ; Great source of science ! whose immortal name Stands foremost in the glorious roll of fame ; Here god-like Socrates, and Plato shone, And, firm to truth, eternal honour won ; The first in virtue's cause his life resign'd, By Heaven pronounced the wisest of mankind ; The last proclaim'd the spark of vital fire, The soul's fine essence, never could expire ; Here Solon dwelt, the philosophic sage That fled Pisistratus...
Pagina 106 - The vessel, while the dread event draws nigh, Seems more impatient o'er the waves to fly. Fate spurs her on. Thus, issuing from afar, Advances to the sun some blazing star; And, as it feels th' attraction's kindling force, Springs onward with accelerated course.
Pagina 111 - O unhappy chief! th' eternal doom Of Heaven decreed thee to the briny tomb! What scenes of misery torment thy view ! What painful struggles of thy dying crew! Thy perish'd hopes all buried in the flood, O'erspread with corses ! red with human blood!
Pagina 16 - The indignant muse, severely taught to feel, Shrinks from a theme she blushes to reveal. Too oft example, arm'd...