 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...  The Poems of William Cowper - Page 429by William Cowper - 1905 - 741 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1818 - 244 pages
...brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went...; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath ; His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down, With twice four... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1818 - 244 pages
...brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went...all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Keinpenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1818 - 240 pages
...breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. i Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His...sea-fight is fought; His work of glory done. It was not in (he battle ; No tempest gave the shoek; She sprang no fatal leak; She ran upon no rock. His sword was... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went...; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath ; His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore. Eight hundred of the biave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel 'heel, And laid her on...Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the braveBrave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought, His work of glory done ! It was not in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1869 - 306 pages
...GEOKG* | i Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the braVe ! Brave Kcmpenfelt is gone His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of...shock She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock. H's sword was in his sheath ; His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down, With twice four... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went...not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprung no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock. ' Hazlitt's Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Queen... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 244 pages
...brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went...; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath; His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down, W ith twice four... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...brave, Whose courage well was tried, 'Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went...George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Hrave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last seafight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1826 - 330 pages
...brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went...last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. 113 It was not in the battle : No tempest gave the shock : She sprang... | |
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