 Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shuddering roll their eyes In wild despair; while yet another stroke With deep convulsion rends the solid oak; Till like the mine, in whose infernal cell The lurking demons of destruction...  The Shipwreck: A Poem - Pagina 127di William Falconer, James Stanier Clarke - 1811 - 215 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | William Falconer - 1803 - 216 pagine
...Vessel wrecked. Again she plunges ! hark ! a second shock 640 Tears her strong bottom on the marble rock : Down on the vale of Death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shudd'ring roll their eye* In wild despair ; while yet another stroke, With deep convulsion, rends... | |
 | William Falconer - 1868 - 180 pagine
...heaving surge; a second shock bilges the splitting vessel, and a third rends asunder the solid oak — " Her crashing ribs divide, She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide." The scene of agony and despair which ensues is portrayed with affecting minuteness and solemnity. No... | |
 | William Falconer, Thomas Park - 1809 - 184 pagine
...npheaving snrges wonnded reels — Again she plnnges ! hark ! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock : Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shnddering cast their eyes In wild despair ; while yet another stroke, With strong convnlsion rends... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 296 pagine
...the murd'rer's blows. Again she plunges ! hark ! a second shock Tears her strong bottom on the marble rock ! Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shuddering roll their eyes In wild despair ; while yet another stroke, With deep convulsion rends the solid oak... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1809 - 384 pagine
...the shipwreck ! " Again she plunges ! hark ! a second shock " Tears her strong bottom on the marble rock : " Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries, " The fated vi£tims shuddering roll their eyes, " In wild despair; while yet another stroke " With deep convulsions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pagine
...upheaving surges wounded reels — Again she plunges ! hark ! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock : Down on the vale of Death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shudd'ring cast their eyes In wild despair; while yet another stroke, With strong convulsion rends... | |
 | Poetical narratives - 1810 - 330 pagine
...the murd'rer's blows. Again she plunges ! hark ! a second shock Tears her strong bottom on the marble rock ! Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shuddering roll their eyes In wild despair ; while yet another stroke, With deep convulsion rends the solid oak... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pagine
...upheaving surges wounded reels — Aga;n she plunges ! hark ! a second shock Bilges Ihe splitting vessel U$ fate.l victims sluidd'ring cast their eyes In wild despair ; while yet another stroke, With strong... | |
 | William Falconer - 1811 - 118 pagine
...murd'rer's blows — Again she plunges ! hark ! a second shock Tears her strong bottom on the marble rock : Down on the vale of Death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shuddering roll their eyes, In wild despair; while yet another stroke, With deep convulsion, reuds the solid oak... | |
 | William Falconer - 1811 - 252 pagine
...and is entirely lost. Again she plunges ! hark ! a second shock Tears her strong bottom on the marble Rock :. Down on the vale of Death, with dismal cries. The fated Victims shuddering roll their eyes, In wild despair ; while yet another stroke, With deep convulsion, rends the solid... | |
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