 | Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...confiding, Charming as love, and courteous still to please, Rung her light bells and wrangled with the breeze. Where are they now ? — the lovely and the...now bestowed, to die, And sink unconscious down th' unfathom'd main, For life is misery, — death is the wretch's gain ! Some vainly grapple with the... | |
 | Charles William Everest - American literature - 1860 - 484 pages
...berths below have found a grave ! Some float upon the sea — some struggle down the wave ! • Oh, what a cry of woe burst from the deep ! What shrieks...waters lie, And writhe and groan in agony of pain ! Oh," it were mercy yielded them to die, And sink at once beneath the troubled main ; For life is... | |
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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... 