| David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 páginas
...Adieu ! At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in ev'ry blast, Could catch the sound no more. For then, by...subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him : but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet... | |
| Hastings Rashdall - 1877 - 596 páginas
...as the minutes flew, Entreated help, or cried — " Adieu ! " At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in every...subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him ; but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet... | |
| Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 páginas
...length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in every blast, 45 ers 6; 6; 6; No poet wept him; but the page Of narrative sincere, 50 That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is... | |
| John Whitford - 1967 - 378 páginas
...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... | |
| Alfred Alvarez - 1990 - 324 páginas
...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... | |
| William Cowper - 2003 - 124 páginas
...Adieu! 42 At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in ev'ry blast. Could catch the sound no more. For then, by...subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. 48 No poet wept him: but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is... | |
| Jack Lagan - 2003 - 368 páginas
...Adieu! At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in ev'ry blast, Could catch the sound no more. For then, by...subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him: but the page Of narrative sincere; That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet... | |
| Conrad Brunström - 2004 - 220 páginas
...Adieu! At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in ev'ry blast, Could catch the sound no more. For then, by...subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. ("The Castaway," 37-48) The castaway survives within earshot of society but beyond its "effectual aid."... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 páginas
...hour In ocean, self-upheld; And so long he, with unspent power, At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in every...subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him, but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet... | |
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