| Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pągines
...space between. " Hearts of oak !" our captains cried; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse...again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feebler cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back ; Their shots along the deep slowly boom : —... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pągines
...space between. " Hearts of oak!" our captain cried; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Again ! again ! again! And the havock did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back; — Their shots along... | |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pągines
...space between. "Hearts of oak !" our captains cried; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse...back;— Their shots along the deep slowly boom ;— Then cease—and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the gloom.... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 pągines
...scene ; And her van the fleeter rush'd O'er the deadly space between. From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse...back; Their shots along the deep slowly boom: Then ecas'd—and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the gloom.—... | |
| Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pągines
...space between 1 " Hearts of oak !" our captains cried, when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse...Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us hack : — Their shots along the deep slowly boom ;— Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 838 pągines
...death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. IV. Again! again! again! And the havock did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our...; Their shots along the deep slowly boom — Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail, Or, in conflagration pale, Light the... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1860 - 702 pągines
...little in the rigging.1 Thus terminated this murderous battle, one of the most obstinately contested * " Again, again, again, And the havoc did not slack,...Their shots along the deep slowly boom : — Then ceased and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail, Or, in conflagration pale, Light the gloom."... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 606 pągines
...Danish fire slackened, and in another hour their ships and batteries were so nearly silenced that — " A feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back ; Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then cease — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail, Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom."... | |
| John Connery - 1861 - 416 pągines
...space between. " Hearts of oak !" our captains cried ; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships. Like the hurricane eclipse...Their shots along the deep slowly boom : — Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail ; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pągines
...between. " Hearts of oak ! " our captains cried ; when e.ich gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse...Their shots along the deep slowly boom : — Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the... | |
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