 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - Страниц: 608
...the seamen strive hi vain Through hostile floods their vessel to regain. The waves they buffet, till, bereft of strength, O'erpowered, they yield to cruel fate at length. The hostile waters close around then- head, They sink forever, numbered with the dead! Those who remain... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - Страниц: 780
...o'er her lee ; While, in the general wreck, the faithful stay Drags the main-topmast from its post away. Flung from the mast, the seamen strive in vain Through hostile Hoods their vessel to regain. The waves they buffet, till, bereft of strength. O'erpower'd they yield... | |
 | 1860 - Страниц: 736
...o'er her lee : While, in the general wreek, the faithful stay Drags the maintopmast from- its post away. Flung from the mast, the seamen strive in' vain Through hostile floods their vessel to regain. The waves they buffet, till, bereft of strength, 0'erpowered, they yield to eruel fate at length. The... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - Страниц: 778
...backward o'er her lee; While, in the general wreck, the faithful stay Drags die main-topmast from its post away. Flung from the mast, the seamen strive in vain Through hostile floods their vessel to regain. The waves they buffet, till, bereft of strength. O'erpower'd they yield to cruel fete at length. The... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - Страниц: 788
...backward o'er her lee; While, in the general wreck, the faithful stay Drags the main-topmast from its post away. Flung from the mast, the seamen strive in vain Through hostile floods their vessel to regain. The waves they buffet, till, bereft of strength, O'erpower'd they yield to cruel fate at length. The... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - Страниц: 784
...backward o'er her lee; While, in the general wreck, the faithful stay Drags the main-topmast from its post away. Flung from the mast, the seamen strive in vain Through hostile floods their vessel to regain. The waves they buffet, till, bereft of strength. O'erpower'd they yield to cruel fate at length. The... | |
 | William Falconer - 1866 - Страниц: 284
...backward o'er her lee ; While, in the general wreck, the faithful stay Drags the main top-mast by the cap away. Flung from the mast, the seamen strive in vain,...floods, their vessel to regain ; Weak hope, alas ! they bufiet Idng the wave, And grasp at life though sinking in the grave ; Till all exhausted, and bereft... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - Страниц: 420
...backward o'er her lee; While, in the general wreck, the faithful stay Drags the main-topmast by the cap away. Flung from the mast, the seamen strive in vain...strength, O'erpowered they yield to cruel Fate at length; A SHIP STRIKING ON A REEF. The burying waters close around their head, They sink for ever, numbered... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - Страниц: 840
...While, in the general wreck, the faithful stay Drags the main top- mast by the cap away : Flung from tho mast, the seamen strive in vain. Through hostile floods, their vessel to regain ; Weak hope, ah« ! they buffet long the wave, And grasp at life though sinking in the grave; Till all exhausted,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1874 - Страниц: 344
...engulf it ; or the craft is driven on an iron-bound coast to be totally broken up, when the hardiest " Buffet long the wave, And grasp at life, though sinking in the grave." A map is not ordinarily a mournful document, but the Wreck Chart of the British Isles, annually published... | |
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The fore-mast totters, unsustain'd on high ; And now the ship, forelifted by the sea, Hurls the tall fabric backward o'er her lee ; While, in the general wreck, the faithful stay Drags the... 
