 Decisive Goal of all their hopes and fears : The Seamen now in wild amazement see The scene of ruin rise beneath their Lee ; Swift from their minds elapsed all dangers past, As dumb with terror they behold the last.  The Shipwreck: A Poem - Page 122by William Falconer, James Stanier Clarke - 1806 - 215 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Falconer - 1803 - 216 pages
...eyes, While, all forlorn, the victim pines in vain, For scenes he never shall possess again. 525 But now Athenian mountains they descry, And o'er the surge Colonna frowns on high ; Beside the cape's projecting verge are plac'd A range of columns, long by time defac'd ; First planted... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 296 pages
...he eyes ! While, all forlorn, the victim pines in vain For scenes he never shall possess again. But now Athenian mountains they descry, And o'er the surge Colonna frowns on high ; Beside the cape's projecting verge is placed A range of columns, long by time defaced ; First planted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 pages
...ray, While, all forlorn, the victim pines in vain For secnes he never shall JKÏSSCSS again, V. But now Athenian mountains they descry, And o'er the surge...frowns on high, Where marble columns, long by time defac'd, M >ss cover'd on the lofty cape are plac'd ; There, rearM by fair Devotion, to sustain In... | |
 | Poetical narratives - 1810 - 330 pages
...he eyes ! While, all forlorn, the victim pines in vain For scenes he never shall possess again. But now Athenian mountains they descry, And o'er the surge Colonna frowns on high ; Beside the cape's projecting verge is placed A range of columns, long by time defaced ; First planted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pages
...vain For scenes he never shall possess again. V. But now Athenian mountains they descry, A;t*l o>r the surge Colonna frowns on high, Where marble columns, long by time defac'd, M.SS cover'd on the lofty cape are plac'd ; Tiî'irf, r-?arM by fair D-votion, to sustain... | |
 | William Falconer - 1811 - 120 pages
...he eyes ; While, all forlorn, the victim pines in vain, For scenes he never shall possess again. But now Athenian mountains they descry, And o'er the surge Colonna frowns on high : Beside the cape's projecting verge are plac'd A range of columns, long by time defac'd ; First planted... | |
 | William Falconer - 1818 - 194 pages
...he eyes, While, all forlorn, the victim pines^in vain, For scenes he never shall possess again. But now Athenian mountains they descry, And o'er the surge Colonna frowns on high : Beside the cape's projecting verge are plac'd A range of columns, long by time defac'd ; First planted... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 332 pages
...vivid ray, While, all forlorn, the victim pines in vain For scenes he never shall possess again. 5. But now Athenian mountains they descry, And o'er the surge...high ; Where marble columns, long by time defaced, Moss-cover'd, on the lofty cape are placed, There rear'd by fair devotion to sustain In elder times... | |
 | William Falconer - 1822 - 192 pages
...vivid ray, While, all forlorn, the victim pines in vain For scenes he never shall possess again. V. But now Athenian mountains they descry, And o'er the surge...high ; Where marble columns, long by time defaced, Moss-cover'd on the lofty cape are placed j There rear'd by fair devotion to sustain In elder times... | |
 | James Grahame - 1823 - 346 pages
...he eyes, While, all forlorn, the victim pines in vain For scenes he never shall possess again. But now Athenian mountains they descry, And o'er the surge Colonna frowns on high : Beside the cape's projecting verge are placed A range of columns long hy time defaced, First planted... | |
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