Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought, His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak, She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held... English Poetry (1170-1892) - Página 271por John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 580 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Tillotson - 1860 - 226 páginas
...overset : Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempeufeldt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work...was in its sheath ; His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfeldt went down With twice four hundred men. Weigh the vessel up, Once dreaded by our foes !... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 páginas
...land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With her crew all complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is...With twice four hundred men. Weigh the vessel up, Once dreaded by our foes ! And mingle with our cup The tear that England owes. Her timbers yet are... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 páginas
...land-breeze shook the shrouds And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock...down With twice four hundred men. Weigh the vessel up Once dreaded by our foes ! And mingle with our cup The tear that England owes. Her timbers yet are... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 páginas
...all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ; Brave Kempenfelt is gone | His last sea fight is fought ; It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock...With twice four hundred men. Weigh the vessel up, Once dreaded by our foes ; And mingle with our cup The tear that England owes. Her timbers yet are... | |
| Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 páginas
...brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went...With twice four hundred men. Weigh the vessel up, Once dreaded by our foes ! And mingle with our cup The tear that England owes. Her timbers yet are... | |
| 1863 - 982 páginas
...braid and narrow ; Syne, in the cleaving of a craig, She found him drown'd in Yarrow ! Attoa. cxx1x LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE TOLL for the Brave ! The...down With twice four hundred men. Weigh the vessel up Once dreaded by our foes ! And mingle with our cup The tear that England owes. Her timbers yet are... | |
| Playtime - 1863 - 436 páginas
...brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went...She sprang no fatal leak — She ran upon no rock. 186 YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND. His sword was in its sheath ; His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt... | |
| Coventry Patmore - 1863 - 390 páginas
...all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought, It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock...With twice four hundred men. Weigh the vessel up, Once dreaded by our foes ! And mingle with our cup The tear that England owes. Her timbers yet are... | |
| William Cowper - 1863 - 540 páginas
...She was undergoing some repairs and was careened over, when a 1782. midden gust of wind ove: t her. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock;...With twice four hundred men. Weigh the vessel up, Once dreaded by our foes I And mingle with our cup The tear that England owes. Her timbers yet are... | |
| Ocean lays - 1864 - 400 páginas
...brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went...With twice four hundred men. Weigh the vessel up, Once dreaded by our foes ! And mingle with our cup The tear that England owes. Her timbers yet are... | |
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