The Shipwreck: A Poembooksellers, 1802 - 135 páginas |
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Página 85 - Brace fore and aft to starboard every yard. So shall our masts swim lighter on the wave, And from the broken rocks our seamen save. Then westward turn the stem, that every mast May shoreward fall, when from the vessel cast.
Página 51 - That once enclosed the hallow'd fane of Jove; Here too, memorial of his name! is found A tomb in marble ruins on the ground: This gloomy tyrant, whose despotic sway Compell'd the trembling nations to obey, Through Greece for murder, rape, and incest known, The Muses raised to high Olympus
Página 59 - Candia's bay th' unwilling ship betray'd, No longer fawns beneath the fair disguise, But like a ruffian on his quarry flies : Tost on the tide, she feels the tempest blow, And dreads the vengeance of so fell a foe. As the proud horse, with costly trappings gay, Exulting prances to the bloody fray ; Spurning the ground, he glories in his might, But reels tumultuous in the shock of fight : E'en so, caparison'd in gaudy pride, The bounding vessel dances on the tide.
Página 58 - Now to the north, from Afric's burning shore, A troop of porpoises their course explore ; In curling wreaths they gambol on the tide, Now bound aloft, now down the billow glide : Their tracks awhile the hoary waves retain, That burn in sparkling trails along the main. These fleetest coursers of the finny race, When threatening clouds the ethereal vault deface, Their route to leeward still sagacious form, To shun the fury of the approaching storm.
Página 80 - The crew, though harass'd much with toils severe, Still at their pumps, perceive no hazards near : Shall we, incautious, then the danger tell, At once their courage and their hope to quell ? Prudence forbids ! this southern tempest soon May change its quarter with the changing moon ; Its rage, though terrible, may soon subside, Nor into mountains lash the unruly tide : These leaks shall then decrease — the sails once more Direct our course to some relieving shore.
Página 88 - Saw distant objects with prophetic light— Thus in a land, that lasting wars oppress, That groans beneath misfortune and distress ; Whose wealth to conquering armies falls a prey...
Página 122 - Awhile they bore th' o'erwhelming billows' rage, Unequal combat with their fate to wage ; Till, all benumb'd and feeble, they forego Their slippery hold, and sink to shades below. 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 th...
Página 35 - The sun's bright orb, declining all serene, Now glanced obliquely o'er the woodland scene : Creation smiles around ; on every spray The warbling birds exalt their evening lay : Blithe skipping o'er yon hill, the fleecy train Join the deep chorus of the lowing plain ; The golden lime, and orange, there were seen...
Página 125 - But lo ! emerging from the watery grave Again they float incumbent on the wave, Again the dismal prospect opens round The wreck, the shore, the dying, and the drowned ! And see ! enfeebled by repeated shocks, Those two, who scramble on the...
Página 128 - For wounded, far beyond all healing power, Palemon dies, and this his final hour : By those fell breakers, where in vain I strove, At once cut off from fortune, life, and love ! Far other scenes must soon present my sight, That lie deep-buried yet in tenfold night. — Ah ! wretched father of a wretched son, Whom thy paternal prudence has undone...