The Coral Gift: Or, The Lovers of the Deep. In Four CantosJ. C. Riker, 1851 - 240 pages |
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... wake the lyre ( 1 ) To notes of wild dismay , despair and woe ! Shipwreck I sing , and those whose vital fire Shall quench in ocean ere the morrow's glow , Submerged in death on coral beds below . Peace to their manes ! -I touch the ...
... wake the lyre ( 1 ) To notes of wild dismay , despair and woe ! Shipwreck I sing , and those whose vital fire Shall quench in ocean ere the morrow's glow , Submerged in death on coral beds below . Peace to their manes ! -I touch the ...
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... waking from their sleep In the Eolian chambers , where they lay , Full soon to lead the terrible array Of battling elements . The wild alarm Spreads far and wide , -above , below , midway , - While the fierce spirits of the tempest arm ...
... waking from their sleep In the Eolian chambers , where they lay , Full soon to lead the terrible array Of battling elements . The wild alarm Spreads far and wide , -above , below , midway , - While the fierce spirits of the tempest arm ...
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... wake Rolls a huge billow , close astern , well nigh Upon the decks its fearful force to break , And ship , and crew , and all , whelm in th ' unfathomed lake ! O for the blesséd land once more to tread ! The dreariest waste beneath the ...
... wake Rolls a huge billow , close astern , well nigh Upon the decks its fearful force to break , And ship , and crew , and all , whelm in th ' unfathomed lake ! O for the blesséd land once more to tread ! The dreariest waste beneath the ...
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... wake the sweet vivacity of speech : - The terrors , now disarmed , no longer teach Th ' inconstancy of life . How frail , how vain , When safety seemed beyond all human reach , As the huge billow reared its mighty train , Broke o'er the ...
... wake the sweet vivacity of speech : - The terrors , now disarmed , no longer teach Th ' inconstancy of life . How frail , how vain , When safety seemed beyond all human reach , As the huge billow reared its mighty train , Broke o'er the ...
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... wakes a throb of mingled happiness ; A feeling undefined - we know not why- Susceptive equally of pain or bliss . And there's a music in the voice , not less Magnetic , thrilling on the ready ear ; A charm which mutually doth impress ...
... wakes a throb of mingled happiness ; A feeling undefined - we know not why- Susceptive equally of pain or bliss . And there's a music in the voice , not less Magnetic , thrilling on the ready ear ; A charm which mutually doth impress ...
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The Coral Gift; Or The Lovers of the Deep: In Four Cantos Edward Augustus McLaughlin No preview available - 1850 |
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The Coral Gift: Or, The Lovers of the Deep. In Four Cantos Edward Augustus McLaughlin No preview available - 1851 |
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Page 4 - NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 200 BROADWAY. MDCCCXLH. V ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, BY D. APPLETON & COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Conrt of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
Page 197 - He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Page 96 - Poured her bland voice upon the wafting breeze. Where are they now ? — the lovely and the brave, The staid, the gay, so late in health and ease ? — Some in their berths below have found a grave, Some toss upon the surge, some struggle down the wave ! O what a cry of woe burst from' the deep ! What shrieks of terror pierced the vaulted sky ! What icy chills around each heart did creep, — What black despair gleamed from each straining eye ! Some, flayed alive, upon the waters lie, And writhe...
Page 183 - •Oh, thank you a thousand times!" exclaimed the youthful queen; and, hastily writing " Pardoned " in large letters on the fatal page, she sent it across the table with a hand trembling with eagerness and emotion.
Page 197 - And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone ; I will make a help meet for him.
Page 96 - Despairing in th' extremity of woe ! A few resigned upon the waters lie, And gazing upward with a dying throe, Await their dissolution drawing nigh, — Their thoughts transferred to realms beyond the distant sky.
Page 183 - And," said the gallant veteran, as he related the circumstances to his friends (for it was none other than the Duke of Wellington), " seeing her Majesty so earnest about it, I said, he is certainly a bad soldier ; but there was somebody who spoke as to his good character, and he may be a good man for aught I know to the contrary.
Page 7 - This poem is founded upon an incident, supposed to have occurred in connection with the destruction of the steamer Pulaski on her passage from Savannah to Charleston.
Page 183 - ... presented for her signature. One was death for desertion — a soldier was condemned to be shot, and his death-warrant was presented to the Queen for her signature. She read it, paused, looked up to the officer who laid it before her, and said — ' Have you nothing to say in behalf of this man ?' 'Nothing; he has deserted three times,
Page 97 - Th' affrighted sea-bird screams their passing knell, Upon whose grave no flowers the Spring shall rear, But sea-weed floats around to deck their watery bier. The winds shall waft this ruin...