 At half-past eight o'clock, booms, hencoops, spars, And all things, for a chance, had been cast loose, That still could keep afloat the struggling tars, For yet they strove, although of no great use : There was no light in heaven but a few stars, The...  Lord Byron's Works - Page 137by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 478 pages
...pale. And the dim desolate deep : twelve days had Fear Been their familiar, and now Death was here. There was no light in heaven but a few stars; The...And going' down head foremost — sunk, in short. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell! Then shrieked the timid and stood still the brave; Then... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 544 pages
.... . . At half-past eight o'clock, booms, hencoops, spars, And all things for a chance had been cast loose, That still could keep afloat the struggling...then a lurch to port ; And, going down head foremost — sank, in short. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell ; Then shrieked the timid, and stood... | |
 | Eugene Cunningham Branson - Readers - 1899 - 400 pages
...liberty. At half-past eight o'clock, booms, hen-coops, spars, And all things, for a chance, had been cast loose, That still could keep afloat the struggling...gave a heel, and then a lurch to port, And going down head-foremost—sunk, in short. 290 FIFTH READER. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell; Then... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1902 - 564 pages
...1. At half past eight o'clock, booms, hencoous, spars, And all things, for a chance, had been cast loose, That still could keep afloat the struggling...gave a heel, and then a lurch to port, And going down headforemost — sunk, in short. 2. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell ; Then shrieked the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 652 pages
...all things, for a chance, had been cast loose, That still could keep afloat the struggling tars, 2 For yet they strove, although of no great use : There...heel, and then a lurch to port, And, going down head foremost—sunk, in short. 3 LII. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shrieked the... | |
 | Robert Naylor Whiteford - English poetry - 1903 - 464 pages
...LI At half-past eight o'clock, booms, hen-coops, spars, And all things, for a chance, had been cast loose, That still could keep afloat the struggling...tars, For yet they strove, although of no great use. 5 There was no light in heaven but a few stars ; The boats put off, o'er crowded with their crews ;... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - American literature - 1904 - 1196 pages
...here. At half-past eight o'clock, booms, hencoops, spars, And all things, for a chance, had been cast loose, That still could keep afloat the struggling...a heel, and then a lurch to port, And, going down head-foremost — sunk, in short. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shriek'd the... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1904 - 942 pages
...miracle. At half-past eight o'clock, booms, hencoops, spars. And all tilings, for a chance, had been cast loose That still could keep afloat the struggling...a heel, and then a lurch to port, And, going down head-foremost — sunk, in short. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shriek'd the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 pages
...4«° At half-past eight o'clock, booms, hencoops, spars, And all things, for a chance, had been cast iron hand did doom More than a human hecatomb. If...For thousands of years were inhumed on the shore; LII Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1110 pages
...LI At half-past eight o'clock, booms, hencoops, spars, And all things, for a chance, had been cast d a heavy loss by Manue LII Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave,... | |
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