 | John Edward Patterson - 1913 - 428 pages
...feet 'bove deck ! A leak beneath the chest-tree's sprung out ! Call all hands to clear the wreck ! Quick the lanyards cut to pieces ! Come, my hearts,...Plumb the well — the leak increases, — Four feet of water in the hold ! " While o'er the ship wild waves are beating, We for wives or children mourn... | |
 | John Edward Patterson - 1913 - 452 pages
...twelve feet 'bove deck ! A leak beneath the chest-tree's sprung out! Call all hands to clear the wreck ! Quick the lanyards cut to pieces ! Come, my hearts, be stout and bold ! Plumb the well—the leak increases,— Four feet of water in the hold ! " While o'er the ship wild waves are... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1920 - 802 pages
...my hearts, be stout and bold ; Plumb the boiler, speed decreases, 31 Four feet water getting cold. While o'er the ship wild waves are beating, We for wives or children mourn ; Alas! from hence there 's no retreating ; Alas ! to them there 's no return. The fire is out — we've burst the bellows,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 pages
...twelve feet 'bovc deck ; A leak beneath the chest-tree 's sprung out, Call all hands to clear the wreck. Quick the lanyards cut to pieces ; Come, my hearts,...— the leak increases, Four feet water in the hold I 628 POEMS OF THE SEA. While o'er the ship wild waves are beating, We our wives and children mourn... | |
 | Arthur Lawrence Hayward - 1926 - 368 pages
...feet 'bove deck : — A leak beneath the chest-tree's sprung out. Call all hands to clear the wreck. Quick the lanyards cut to pieces ; Come, my hearts,...— the leak increases, Four feet water in the hold ! ' " John Braham, whom Planch6 called " The greatest English tenor perhaps ever known, about the worst... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - 1888 - 790 pages
...twelve feet 'bove deck ; A leak beneath the chest-tree's sprung out, Call all hands to clear the wreck. Quick the lanyards cut to pieces ; Come, my hearts,...hold ! While o'er the ship wild waves are beating We our wives and children mourn ; Alas ! from hence there's no retreating, Alas ! to them there's no return... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 pages
...twelve feet 'bove deck ; A leak beneath the chest-tree 's sprung out, Call all hands to clear the wreck. Kg ٍ #Mv Ƴ4 U z j > 2R+Y o) u<} ,턦 ț m J> / _|- ^ z (c Ǿ ( jV z ` ; d g Y ~6 1 ͊ S ) u, ! 628 POEMS OP THE SEA. 629 While o'er the ship wild waves are beating, We our wives and children mourn... | |
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While o'er the ship wild waves are beating, We for wives or children mourn : Alas ! from hence there's no retreating, Alas ! to them there's no return. Still the leak is gaining on us : Both chain-pumps are choak'd below. 
