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Letter "S" » Shipwreck
"Some hoisted out the boats, and there was one
That begged Pedrillo for an absolution
Who told him to be damn'd,–in his confusion."
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
About: Shipwreck
"Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell–
Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave,–
Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell,
As eager to anticipate their grave."
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
About: Shipwreck
"Again she plunges! hark! a second shock
Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock;
Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries,
The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes
In wild despair; while yet another stroke
With strong convulsion rends the solid oak:
Ah Heaven!–behold her crashing ribs divide!
She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide."
Author: William Falconer
About: Shipwreck
"And fast through the midnight dark and drear,
Through the whistling sleet and snow,
Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept
Towards the reef of Norman's Woe."
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
About: Shipwreck
"Each man makes his own shipwreck.
[Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.]"
Author: Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
About: Shipwreck
"Through the black night and driving rain
A ship is struggling, all in vain,
To live upon the stormy main;–
Miserere Domine!"
Author: Adelaide Anne Procter
About: Shipwreck
"But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale,
And in the distant ray what glimmering sail
Bends to the storm?–Now sinks the note of fear!
Ah! wretched mariners!–no more shall day
Unclose his cheering eye to light ye on your way!"
Author: Mrs. Ann Ward Radcliffe
About: Shipwreck
"In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,
Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared
A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigged,
Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats
Instinctively have quit it."
Author: William Shakespeare
About: Shipwreck
"O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel
(Who had no doubt some noble creature in her)
Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock
Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!"
Author: William Shakespeare
About: Shipwreck
"Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways
of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks."
Author: George Bernard Shaw
About: Shipwreck
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