 Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.  Poems - Sivu 112tekijä(t) William Cowper - 1853Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 sivua
...emotional. Take as an instance the " Loss of the Royal George " : — " Toll for the brave, The brave who are no more, All sunk beneath the wave Fast by their...all her crew complete. " Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last seafight is fought, His work of glory done. " It was not in the battle,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 310 sivua
...[To the March in Scipio.] WRITTEN WHEN THE MEWS ARRIVED. [September, 1782.] TOLL for the brave ! The brave that are no more, All sunk beneath the wave,...land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; 247 Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt... | |
 | Tales - 1847 - 336 sivua
...event reached him, will fitly close this account of so disastrous a wreck. " Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more ! All sunk beneath the wave,...made the vessel heel , And laid her on her side. " A land-beeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 sivua
...THE ROYAL GEORGE (TO TUB MARCH IN SCIPJO.) WRITTEN WHEN THE NEWS ARRIVED. TOLL for the brave ! The brave that are no more ! All sunk beneath the wave,...all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kcmpenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle... | |
 | Frances Osborne - 1850 - 344 sivua
...this awful calamity, with which we will wind up the subject: — ' " •> "'Toll for the brave! ; The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave,...all her crew complete. '"Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfeldt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought: His work of glory done. " ' It was not in the battle... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 476 sivua
...WHEN THE NEWS ARRIVED. To the March in Scipio. All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore t Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was...made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew... | |
 | 1913 - 586 sivua
...much wind at the time. The real cause of the sinking of the vessel is given in the previous stanza : Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was...Had made the vessel heel And laid her on her side. The standard authority on th? history of our Navy — Clowes's ' Royal Navy ' — lias a very brief... | |
 | Frances Osborne - 1851 - 332 sivua
...lines on this awful calamity, with which we will wind up the subject: — "'Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave,...all her crew complete. "'Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfeldt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought: His work of glory done. "' It was not in the battle... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 sivua
...oak, <kc. THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. WILLUM COWPEE, born 1731, died 1800. TOLL for the brave! The brave that are no more ! All sunk beneath the wave,...shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Eoyal George With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 790 sivua
...of annexing it to the original. • ONU. ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL OEOBOE. Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more ! All sunk beneath the wave,...made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew... | |
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