 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - Страниц: 470
...backward o'er her lee, While, in the general wreck, the faithful stay Drags the maintopmast by the cap away : Flung from the mast, the seamen strive in vain...buffet long the wave And grasp at life though sinking to the grave, Till all exhausted, and bereft of strength, O'erpowered they yield to cruel fate at length... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1877 - Страниц: 800
...sufferer struggling desperately for life, and contending with the raging waves, " Till all exhansted, and bereft of strength, O'erpowered, they yield to cruel fate at length ; The burying waten clou around their head, — They slnk ! for ever numbered with the dead." We conclude with a... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1880 - Страниц: 852
...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,...grave ; Till all exhausted, and bereft of strength, O'erpower'd they yield to cruel fate at length ; The burying waters close around their head, They sink... | |
 | John Richard Blakiston - 1884 - Страниц: 256
...life and death. While, in the general wreck, the faithful stay Drags the maintop-mast 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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - Страниц: 504
...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....hostile floods, their vessel to regain ; Weak hope, alss l they buffet long the wave, And grasp at life though dnking in the grave; Till all exhausted,... | |
 | George Eyre-Todd - 1896 - Страниц: 256
...backward o'er the 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'erpowered they yield to cruel fate at length. The... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - Страниц: 546
...o'er her lee ; While, in the general wreck, the faithful stay Drags the maintop-mast 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'erpowered, they yield to cruel fate at length. The... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - Страниц: 532
...o'er her lee ; While, in the general wreck, the faithful stay Drags the maintop-mast 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'erpowered, they yield to cruel fate at length. The... | |
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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... 
