 | 1857 - 468 strani
...clear; Hands up, each a sack of coal get, Man the boiler, cheer, lads, cheer; Now the dreadful thunder's roaring, Peal on peal contending clash; On our heads fierce rain falls pouring, In our eye'¿ the paddles splash. One wide water all around us, All above one smoke-black sky: Different deaths... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1857 - 508 strani
...he looked around him and up at the heavens, he sung in a low voice the words of a sea-song : — " One wide water all around us, All above us one black sky." And so it was with them ; — they were in the middle of the Atlantic, not another vessel to be seen,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 322 strani
...up—each preventer-brace set— Man the fore-yard—cheer, lads, cheer ! Now the dreadful thunder roaring, Peal on peal, contending, clash ! On our...us— Hark '.—what means that dreadful cry! The foremast's gone! cries every tongue out, O'er the lee, twelve feet 'bove deck; A leak beneath the chest... | |
 | 1860 - 910 strani
...rumbled nearer and nearer, louder and louder. To windward and directly overhead it was black as pitch. '" One wide water all around us, All above us one black sky." Intrepid Amy clung to the seat with one hand, and clutched Rover's collar with the other, whilst her... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 494 strani
...Hands up, each a sack of coal get, Man the boiler, cheer, lads, cheer. Now the dreadful thunder 's roaring, Peal on peal contending clash ; On our heads fierce rain falls pouring, In our eyes the paddles splash. One wide water all around us, All above one smoke-black sky : Different deaths... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1862 - 560 strani
...falls pouring, In our eyes the paddles splash. One wide water all around us, All above one smoke-black sky : Different deaths at once surround us ; Hark ! what means that dreadful cry? The funnel 's gone ! cries ev'ry tongue out, The engineer 's washed off the deck ; A leak beneath the coal-hole... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 strani
...enthrals ; Harder yet, it blows yet harder ! Hark ! again the boatswain calls ! Now the dreadful thunder roaring, Peal on peal, contending, clash ! On our...surround us—- Hark ! — what means that dreadful cry P The foremast's gone ! cries every tongue out, O'er the lee, twelve feet 'bove deck ; A leak beneath... | |
 | Charles Dibdin - 1863 - 366 strani
...up ! each preventive brace set, Man the fore-yard, cheer, lads, cheer ! Now the dreadful thunder's roaring, Peal on peal contending clash, On our heads...surround us : Hark ! what means that dreadful cry ? The fore-mast's gone, cries every tongue out, O'er the lee, twelve feet 'bove deck ; A leak beneath the... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1863 - 296 strani
...Hands up, each a sack of coal get, Man the boiler, cheer, lads, cheer ; Now the dreadful thunder 's roaring, Peal on peal contending clash ; On our heads fierce rain falls .pouring, In our eyes the paddles splash. One wide water all around us, All above one smoke-black sky : Different deaths... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 strani
...hands up, each preventure-brace set, man the fore-yard, cheer, lads, cheer ! Now the dreadful thunder's roaring, peal on peal contending clash, on our heads...surround us : hark ! what means that dreadful cry \ O'er the lee-beam is the land, boys, let the guns o'erboard be thrown ; to the pump let every hand,... | |
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Now the dreadful thunder's roaring, Peal on peal contending clash, On our heads fierce rain falls pouring, In our eyes blue lightnings flash. One wide water all around us, All above us one black sky... 
