 | 1813 - 410 pages
...pleasures may turn into pain. THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER. JAMES T. FIELDS. We were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul would dare to sleep— It was midnight on the...the hungry sea was roaring, And the breakers talked with death. As there we sat in darkness, Each one busy with his prayers, "We are lost!" the captain... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1879 - 398 pages
...other class they have to face death, as in Field's lines : — " We were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul would dare to sleep, — • It was midnight on the waters, And a storm was on the deep. " So we shuddered there in silence, — For the stoutest held his breath ; While the hungry sea was... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 pages
...into very pleasing stanzas : HALLAD OF THE TEMPEST. We were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul could dare to sleep — It was midnight on the waters, And...on the deep. 'Tis a fearful thing in winter, To be shatter'd in the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder, " Cut away the mast." i So we shudder'd... | |
 | 1859 - 798 pages
...girl's words, wrote the following s of poetry : — YHE YEMPESY. WE were crowded in the cahin ; Not a soul would dare to sleep, — • It was midnight...on the deep. "Tis a fearful thing in winter To be shatterM in the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder, " Cut away the mast ! " So we shudder'd... | |
 | 1744 - 726 pages
...Hope, thankful to God for their great deliverance. THE TEMPE9T. WE were crowded in the cabin, — Not a soul would dare to sleep; It was midnight on the waters,...deep. 'Tis a fearful thing in winter To be shattered in the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder, " cut away the mast." So we shuddered there... | |
 | 1851 - 316 pages
...having killed, are towing towards it. GOD ON THE OCEAN. We 'were crowded in the cabin. Kot a soul did dare to sleep ; It was midnight on the waters, And...deep. 'Tis a fearful thing in winter, To be shattered in the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder, u Cut away the mast !" So we shuddered there... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1849 - 118 pages
...midnight on the waters, And a storm was on the deep. 'T is a fearful thing in winter To be shattered in the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder,...the hungry sea was roaring, And the breakers talked with Death. • •' ifeilH :rf*r~' 34 BALLAD OP THE TEMPEST. As thus we sat in darkness, Each one... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1849 - 122 pages
...world, And offered unto Genius in the old. BALLAD OF THE TEMPEST. WE were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul would dare to sleep, — It was midnight on the waters, And a storm was on the deep. 'T is a fearful thing in winter To be shattered in the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder,... | |
 | 1849 - 612 pages
...space. The following* Ballad of the Tempest' is simple yet pic1 WE were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul would dare to sleep ; It was midnight on the waters, And a storm was on the deep. ' 'T ie a fearful thing in winter To be shattered in the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder... | |
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WE were crowded in the cabin, Not a soul would dare to sleep, — It was midnight on the waters, And a storm was on the deep. 'Tis a fearful thing in winter To be shattered by the blast, And to hear the rattling trumpet Thunder, "Cut away the mast! 
