The Shipwreck: And Other Poems

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C. Tilt, 1836 - Всего страниц: 125
 

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Стр. 84 - 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...
Стр. 82 - 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 attraction's kindling force. Springs onward with accelerated course.
Стр. 79 - That tore ./Eneas from her sight away, That saw him parting never to return, Herself in funeral flames decreed to burn. O yet in clouds, thou genial source of light, Conceal thy radiant glories from our sight ! Go, with thy smile adorn the happy plain, And gild the scenes where health and pleasure reign ! But let not here, in scorn, thy wanton beam Insult the dreadful grandeur of my theme. While shoreward now the bounding vessel flies, Full in her van St. George's cliffs arise ; High o'er the rest...
Стр. 71 - Pisistratus' vindictive rage ; Just Aristides here maintain'd the cause Whose sacred precepts shine through Solon's laws : Of all her towering structures, now alone Some columns stand, with mantling weeds o'ergrown; The wandering stranger near the port descries A milk-white lion of stupendous size, Of antique marble ; hence the haven's name, Unknown to modern natives whence it came. Next in the gulf of Engia, Corinth lies, Whose gorgeous fabrics...
Стр. 38 - When orient dews impearl th' enamelled 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...
Стр. 47 - Though their firm hearts no pageant-honour boast, They scorn the wretch that trembles at his post ; Who from the face of danger strives to turn, Indignant from the social hour they spurn. Though now full oft they felt the raging tide In proud rebellion climb the vessel's side...
Стр. 92 - With shatter'd rafts and corses of the dead ; Three still alive, benumb'd and faint they find, In mournful silence on a rock reclined. The generous natives, moved with social pain, The feeble strangers in their arms sustain ; With pitying sighs their hapless lot deplore, And lead them trembling from the fatal shore.
Стр. 20 - My fluttering spirits first the infection caught ? When, as I gazed, my faltering tongue betray'd The heart's quick tumults, or refused its aid ; While the dim light my ravish'd eyes forsook, And every limb, unstrung with terror, shook. With all her powers, dissenting reason strove To tame at first the kindling flame of love : She strove in vain ; subdued by charms divine, My soul a victim fell at beauty's shrine. Oft...
Стр. 81 - He guides the unhappy victim to the shroud : " Hie thee aloft, my gallant friend ! " he cries ; " Thy only succour on the mast relies.
Стр. 13 - Pierian train, To call Arion this ill-fated swain ! For, like that bard unhappy, on his head, Malignant stars their hostile influence shed. Both in lamenting numbers o'er the deep, With conscious anguish taught the...

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