 O'er the deadly 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 Of the sun. Again! again! again! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer...  Gertrude of Wyoming, and other poems - Page 96by Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 160 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1857 - 436 pages
...cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back ; Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then ceas'd — and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail ; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the gloom. — Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave : " Ye are brothers ! ye are men ! And... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Again ! 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 : — Then cease, and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail; Or, in conflagration pale, Like the gloom.... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our...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... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun ! Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, 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... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1860 - 702 pages
...this murderous battle, one of the most obstinately contested * " Again, again, again, And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our...sail, Or, in conflagration pale, Light the gloom." CAMPBELL'S Battle of the Baltic. ever fought by the British navy. Nelson said, " He had CHAP. been... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 606 pages
...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 - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...death-shade round the ships. Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our...sail ; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the gloom. — Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave ; " Ye are brothers ! ye are men ! And... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Again ! again ! again ! • ' ' And the havoc 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 shatter'd sail; Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom.... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer, the Dane, To our...back : — Their shots along the deep slowly boom : — Theu ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail ; Or, in conflagration pale,... | |
 | William Hurton - 1861 - 466 pages
...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."... | |
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