 | James Alexander Roy - Poets, English - 1914 - 196 pages
...Adieu I M At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in every blast, Could catch the sound no more : For then, by...stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him; but this page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear:... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 854 pages
...length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in every blast, 45 a gloom, 80 Far from all resort of mirth, 50 That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear :' And tears by bards or heroes... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in every blast, 45 ce I designed, by giving him one night of respite from the pains of [460 wandering. 50 That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear: And tears by bards or heroes... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...!" At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before *6 Had heard his voice in ey'ry in Woods 50 Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear.1-1 And... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1920 - 314 pages
...Adieu. At length, his transient respite passed, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in every blast, Could catch the sound no more — For then...subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. A momentary change from this misery touches the grief of Anson for the sailor's fate. This is not out... | |
 | Gertrude Eleanor Hollingworth - Literary style - 1924 - 148 pages
...all. 101. At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in every blast, Could catch the sound no more : For then, by toil subdued, he drank 5 102. So pleasant their vain conceits are, that they hinder their ordinary tasks and necessary business... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in every blast, 45 ers 6; 6; 6; 50 That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear: And tears by bards or heroes... | |
 | John Whitford - Business & Economics - 1967 - 378 pages
...for the vessel, instead of striking inshore for the bush. We heard his dreadful drowning cries, " And then, by toil subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank." A lifebuoy was cut adrift and the gig lowered at once, but the boat returned in a few hours with the... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 392 pages
...perforce, They left their outcast mate behind, And scudded still before the wind. At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his...subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. 4. William Cowper, Poetical Works, ed. HS Milford, revised 4th edn, London, 1967 (Oxford Standard Authors),... | |
 | Alfred Alvarez - Psychology - 1990 - 324 pages
...for Cowper the destructive element is not death - the sailor dies quickly in a business-like couplet: 'then, by toil subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank.' The real and poignant *He was right. After he was released from his lunatic asylum, his relatives rallied... | |
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That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear. And tears by bards or heroes shed Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream... 
