| History - 1803 - 892 pages
...crew, Heav'd all their guns, their foundering bark to save, And toil'd — and shriek'd— and perish'd on the wave ! Yes, at the dead of night, by Lonna's steep, The seaman's cry was heard along the deep j There, on his funeral waters, dark and wild, The dying father blest his darling child ! Oh ! Mercy,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1806 - 220 pages
...Heav'd all their guns, their foundering bark to save, And toil'd — and shriek' d — and perish'd on the wave ! Yes, at the dead of night, by Lonna's steep, The seaman's cry was heard along the deep ; 150 There on bis funeral waters, dark and wild, The dying father blest his darling child ! Oh ! Mercy,... | |
| William Falconer - 1868 - 180 pages
...Shipwreck. Pallas and Plato are forgotten in the recollection of Falconer and Campbell : — ' Here in the dead of night, by Lonna's steep, The seaman's cry was heard along the deep.'" This temple of Minerva may be seen at sea from a great distance; and the imagination instantly conjures... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1812 - 160 pages
...Heav'd all their guns, their foundering bark to save, And toil'd — and shriek'd. — and perish'd on the wave ! Yes, at the dead of night, by Lonna's...and wild, The dying father blest his darling child I Oh ! Mercy, shield her innocence, he cried, Spent on the pray'r his bursting heart, and died ! How... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1812 - 314 pages
...unfinished. Pallas and Plato are forgotten, in the recollection of Falconer and Campbell. " Here in the dead of night by Lonna's steep, " The seaman's cry was heard along the deep." • This temple of Minerva may be seen at sea from a great distance. In two journeys which I made,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 334 pages
...Shipwreck. Pallas and Plato are forgotten, in the recollection of Falconer and Campbell. , " Here in the dead of night by Lonna's steep, " The seaman's cry was heard along the deep." This temple of Minerva may be seen at sea from a great distance. In two journeys which I made, and... | |
| Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1817 - 166 pages
...Heaved all their guns, their foundering bark to save, And toil'd — and shriek' d — and perish'd on the wave ! Yes, at the dead of night, by Lonna's...Mercy, shield her innocence, he cried, Spent on the prayer his bursting heart, and died! Or they will learn how generous worth sublimes The robber Moor,0... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 250 pages
...Shipwreck. Pallas und Plato are forgotten, in the recollection of Falconer and Campbell: " Here in the dead of night by Lonna's steep, " The seaman's cry was heard along the deep." This temple of Minerva may be seen at sea from a great distance. In two journey s which I made, and... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 384 pages
...Falconer's Shipwreck. Pallas and Plato are forgotten, in the recollection of Falconer and Campbell: "Here in the dead of night by Lonna's steep, "The seaman's cry was heard along the deep." This temple of Minerva may be seen at sea from a great distance. In two journeys which I made, and... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1821 - 176 pages
...Heaved all their guns, their foundering bark to save, And toil'd — and shriek' d — and perish'd on the wave ! Yes, at the dead of night, by Lonna's...Mercy shield her innocence, he cried, Spent on the prayer his bursting heart, and died ! Or they will learn how generous worth sublimes The robber Moor... | |
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