| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our...back ; Their shots along the deep slowly boom.: Then cease, and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail ; Or in conflagration pale, Light the gloom.... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Massacre, 1778 - 1809 - 148 pages
...round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. — IV, Again! again! again! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our...Their shots along the deep slowly boom : • Then ceas'd — and all is wail, As they strike the shatter' d sail; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1810 - 272 pages
...death-shade round the ships, Like the hurriance eclipse Of the sun. IV. Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our...Their shots along the deep slowly boom : — Then ceas'd — and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail ; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 266 pages
...round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the suii. Again ! again ! again ! IV. And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our...;— Their shots along the deep slowly boom :— Then ceas'd—and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail; Or, in conflagration pale, • Light the... | |
| Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun, — Again! again! again! And the havoc did not slack;. Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our...: Their shots along the deep slowly boom, — Then ceas'd; — and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail ; Or in conflagration pale, Light the... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1814 - 274 pages
...its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. IV. Again! again! again! And the havock did not slack,...— Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then ceas'd — and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail ; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the... | |
| Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...a bold determined hand, And the Prince of all the land Led them on. — Like leviathans afloat, Lav their bulwarks on the brine ; While the sign of battle...— Their shots along the deep slowly boom :-«Then ceas'd — and all is wail, ' As they strike the shatter'd sail ; Or, in conflagration pale, Out spoke... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1819 - 188 pages
...their path, There was silence deep as death ; And the boldest held his breath, For a time. — in. But the might of England flush'd To anticipate the...sail ; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the gloom. — V. Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave ; ' Ye are brothers ! ye are men... | |
| British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...brand, In a bold determin'd hand, And the Prince of all the land l<ed them on. — Like leviathan's afloat, Lay their bulwarks on the brine ; While the...;— Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then ceas'd — and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 pages
...death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our...back;— Their shots along the deep slowly boom,— Then cease—and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail; Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom.... | |
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