 For death bids every clenching joint adhere : All faint, to Heaven he throws his dying eyes, And, ' Oh protect my wife and child ! ' he cries — The gushing streams roll back the unfinished sound, He gasps ! and sinks amid the vast profound.  Mollie darling - Page 272by lady Constance Eleanora C. Howard - 1883Full view - About this book
 | William Falconer - Scottish poetry - 1802 - 192 pages
...strives in vain his fetter'd limbs to clear; For Death bids every clinching joint adhere. All-faint, to Heaven he throws his dying eyes, '* And, " Oh, protect my wife and child!" he cries : The gushing streams roll back th' unfinish'd sound ! He gasps! he dies! and tumbles to the ground! 71O Five only... | |
 | William Falconer, James Stanier Clarke - Shipwrecks - 1804 - 292 pages
...near, And strives in vain his fettered limbs to clear For Death bids every clinching joint adhere: All faint, to Heaven he throws his dying eyes, And, Oh protect my Wife and Child! be cries— The gushing streams roll back th' unfinished sound, He gasps! and sinks amid the vast profound... | |
 | William Falconer, James Stanier Clarke - English poetry - 1806 - 294 pages
...And strives in vain his fettered limbs to clear, \ For Death bids every clenching joint adhere : j All faint, to Heaven he throws his dying eyes, And, Oh protect my Wife and Cluld ! he cries — The gushing streams roll back th' unfinished sound, He gasps ! and sinks amid... | |
 | William Falconer - English poetry - 1808 - 168 pages
...near, And strives in vain his fettered limbs to clear, For Death bids every clenching joint adhere : All faint, to Heaven he throws his dying eyes, And,...protect my Wife and Child ! he cries — The gushing streams roll back the unfinished sound, He gasps ! and sinks amid the vast profound. Five only left... | |
 | William Falconer - 1868 - 180 pages
...near, And strives in vain his fettered limbs to clear, For death bids every clenching joint adhere : All faint, to Heaven he throws his dying eyes, And, "Oh protect my wife and child!" he criesThe gushing streams roll back the unfinished sound, He gasps ! and sinks amid the vast profound.... | |
 | William Falconer - English poetry - 1808 - 166 pages
...he throws his dying eyes, And, Oh protect my Wife and Child ! he cries — The gushing streams roll back the unfinished sound, He gasps ! and sinks amid the vast profound. Five only left of all the shipwrecked throng Yet ride the Mast which shoreward drives along ; With... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 332 pages
...strives in vain his fetter'd limbs to clear, For death bids every clinching joint adhere : All-faint, to Heaven he throws his dying eyes, And, ' Oh protect my wife and child !' he cries — The gushing streams roll back the' unfinish'd sound, He gasps ! and sinks amid the vast profound. Five only left... | |
 | William Falconer - English poetry - 1836 - 306 pages
...near, And strives in vain his fetter'd limbs to clear, For death bids every clenching joint adhere : All faint, to Heaven he throws his dying eyes, And, Oh protect my wife and child ! lie cries— The gushing streams roll back the unfinish'd sound, He gasps ! and sinks amid the vast... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...For Death bids every clenching joint adhere. All faint, to heaven he throws his dying eyes. And " O t ; that my song With star-like virtue in its place may shine ; Shedd th' iinfinish'd sound! He gasps ! he dies ! and tumbles to the ground! Five only left of all the perish'd... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...For Death bids every clenching joint adhere. All iaint, to heaven he throws his dying eye*. And "O an age to weep At any grave or solemn spectacle, Inly distress 'd or th' tmfinish'd sound ! He gasps ! he dies! and tumbles to the ground! Five only left of all the perish'd... | |
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