 | George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 pages
...hidden rock ; Her timbers thrilled2 as nerves, when through them passed The spirit of that shock. 3. And ever like base cowards, who leave their ranks In danger's hour, before the rush of steel,3 Drifted away disorderly the planks From underneath her keel. 4 Then amidst oath, and prayer,... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 pages
...hard and fast, Caught, without hope, upon a hidden rock ; Her timbers thrilled as nerves, when thro' them passed The spirit of that shock. And ever like...disorderly, the planks, From underneath her keel. 1 Out with those boats, and let us haste away,' Cried one,' ere yet yon sea the bark devours.' The... | |
 | 1872 - 504 pages
...stout ship ' Birkenhead ' lay hard and fast, Caught, without hope, upon a hidden rock, Her timbers thrilled as nerves, when through them passed The spirit of that shock. 3*00,-HM|<CiO -IWgrHr Confusion spread, for, though the coast seemed near, Sharks hovered thick along... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1875 - 168 pages
...5 Caught without hope upon a hidden rock ; Her timbers thrill'd as nerves, when through them pass'd The spirit of that shock. And ever like base cowards,...ranks In danger's hour, before the rush of steel, 10 Drifted away disorderly the planks From underneath her keel. So calm the air, so calm and still... | |
 | Sir Francis Hastings Doyle - 1877 - 326 pages
...fast, Caught without hope upon a hidden rock ; Her timbers thrill'd as nerves, when through them pass'd The spirit of that shock. And ever like base cowards,...away disorderly the planks From underneath her keel. So calm the air — so calm and still the flood, That low down in its blue translucent glass We saw... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1877 - 326 pages
...fast, Caught without hope upon a hidden rock ; Her timbers thrill'd as nerves, when through them pass'd The spirit of that shock. And ever like base cowards,...away disorderly the planks From underneath her keel. So calm the air, so calm and still the flood, That low down in its blue translucent glass We saw the... | |
 | sir Francis Hastings C. Doyle (2nd bart.) - 1877 - 316 pages
...fast, Caught without hope upon a hidden rock ; Her timbers thrill'd as nerves, when through them pass'd The spirit of that shock. And ever like base cowards,...away disorderly the planks From underneath her keel. So calm the air — so calm and still the flood, That low down in its blue translucent glass We saw... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 126 pages
...fast, Caught without hope upon a hidden rock ; Her timbers thrill'd as nerves, when through them pass'd The spirit of that shock. And ever like base cowards,...leave their ranks In danger's hour, before the rush of steel,2 Drifted away, disorderly, the planks, From underneath her keel. So calm the air, so calm and... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1878 - 400 pages
...Caught without hope upon a hidden rock ; Her timbers thrilled 2 as nerves, when through them passed 3. And ever like base cowards, who leave their ranks In danger's hour, before the rush of steel, 3 Drifted away disorderly the planks From underneath her keel. 4. Then amidst oath, and prayer, and... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1878 - 412 pages
...fast, Caught without hope upon a hidden rock ; Her timbers thrilled2 as nerves, when through them 3. And ever like base cowards, who leave their ranks In danger's hour, before the rush of steel,3 Drifted away disorderly the planks From underneath her keel. 4 Then amidst oath, and prayer,... | |
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The deep sea rolled around in dark repose; When, like the wild shriek from some captured town, A cry of women rose. The stout ship Birkenhead... 
