 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1879 - 398 trang
...their interest, for more than any other class they have to face death, as in Field's lines : — " We were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul would dare...midnight on the waters, And a storm was on the deep. " So we shuddered there in silence, — For the stoutest held his breath ; While the hungry sea was... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 trang
...into very pleasing stanzas : HALLAD OF THE TEMPEST. We were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul could dare to sleep — It was midnight on the waters, And...on the deep. 'Tis a fearful thing in winter, To be shatter'd in the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder, " Cut away the mast." i So we shudder'd... | |
 | 1859 - 798 trang
...little girl's words, wrote the following s of poetry : — YHE YEMPESY. WE were crowded in the cahin ; Not a soul would dare to sleep, — • It was midnight...on the deep. "Tis a fearful thing in winter To be shatterM in the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder, " Cut away the mast ! " So we shudder'd... | |
 | 1744 - 726 trang
...found their way to the Cape of Good Hope, thankful to God for their great deliverance. THE TEMPE9T. WE were crowded in the cabin, — Not a soul would...deep. 'Tis a fearful thing in winter To be shattered in the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder, " cut away the mast." So we shuddered there... | |
 | 1851 - 316 trang
...having killed, are towing towards it. GOD ON THE OCEAN. We 'were crowded in the cabin. Kot a soul did dare to sleep ; It was midnight on the waters, And...deep. 'Tis a fearful thing in winter, To be shattered in the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder, u Cut away the mast !" So we shuddered there... | |
 | 1849 - 742 trang
...; but we cannot forbear quoting the following exquisite ballad, as a fair specimen of its quality : We were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul would dare...midnight on the waters, And a storm was on the deep. 'T is a fearful thing in winter To be shattered in the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder,... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1849 - 108 trang
...Culled from a margin of the western world, And offered unto Genius in the old. BALLAD OF THE TEMPEST. WE were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul would dare...midnight on the waters, And a storm was on the deep. 'T is a fearful thing in winter To be shattered in the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder,... | |
 | 1849 - 612 trang
...is all for which we can find present space. The following* Ballad of the Tempest' is simple yet pic1 WE were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul would dare...midnight on the waters, And a storm was on the deep. ' 'T ie a fearful thing in winter To be shattered in the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1849 - 124 trang
...Culled from a margin of the western world, And offered unto Genius in the old. BALLAD OF THE TEMPEST. WE were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul would dare...midnight on the waters, And a storm was on the deep. 'T is a fearful thing in winter To be shattered in the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder,... | |
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We were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul would dare to sleep, — It was midnight on the waters, And a storm was on the deep. "Tis a fearful thing in winter To be shattered by the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder, " Cut away the mast !... 
