 Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore ! Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And...  The child's book of song and praise - Page 18by Child - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Virginia Woolf - Fiction - 2001 - 500 pages
...Brave': the first line of Cowper's 'The Loss of the Royal George'. The whole stanza goes like this: Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave Fast by their native shore. See also note top. 35. 312 Whoever you are ... all will be useless: a misquotation from Walt Whitman... | |
 | Tim Ecott - History - 2002 - 380 pages
...loss was immortalized in art and literature of the time, as well as in a poem by William Cowper: Toll for the brave — The brave! That are no more; All...sunk beneath the wave. Fast by their native shore. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew... | |
 | John Harding - Humor - 2007 - 276 pages
...sorry affair was later immortalised in a poem by William Cowper, the first lines of which are, Toll for the brave The brave! that are no more; All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore. 7 PUT A MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE WORLDWIDE, 1784-1999 Messages placed in bottles have been known to float... | |
 | Adam Hochschild - History - 2006 - 500 pages
...held, and mourners erected stones and monuments, one in Westminster Abbey. The poet Cowper wrote: Toll for the brave — The brave! That are no more: All...sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore. But at the bottom of Portsmouth harbor it was not all men. Among the drowned were some four hundred... | |
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