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" Again! again! again! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back;— Their shots along the deep slowly boom:— Then ceased— and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail; Or in conflagration pale, Light... "
The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White ... - Page 149
by Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 496 pages
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volumes 50-51

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 606 pages
...Danish fire slackened, and in another hour their ships and batteries were so nearly silenced that — " A feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back ; Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then cease — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail, Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom."...
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The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution

John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
..." Hearts of oak !" our captains cried ; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships. Like the hurricane eclipse Of the...sail ; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the gloom. — Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave ; " Ye are brothers ! ye are men ! And...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...between. 'Hearts of oak !' our captains cried, when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the...;— Their shots along the deep slowly boom:— Then ceased—and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail; Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom....
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A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...Hearts of oak ! " our captains cried ; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the...back : — Their shots along the deep slowly boom : — Theu ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail ; Or, in conflagration pale,...
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A Complete View of the Shakspere Controversy: Concerning the Authenticity ...

Clement Mansfield Ingleby - 1861 - 422 pages
...Campbell's Battle of the Baltic, which I think was first published in 1800. In this we read,34 — " Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack,...feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back ; — " But I cannot find that a cheer was employed in the modern sense of a shout of applause till...
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Vonved the Dane: count of Elsinore [by W. Hurton].

William Hurton - 1861 - 466 pages
...Danish fire slackened, and in another hour their ships and batteries were so nearly silenced that — " A feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back...— Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then cease — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail, Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom."...
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Poetry for Repetition

Henry Twells - 1862 - 258 pages
...death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Again ! again ! again ! And the havock did not slack, Till a feeble cheer, the Dane, To our...sail ; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the gloom. Out spoke the victor then, As he hailed them o'er the wave ; " Ye are brothers ! ye are men ! And we...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...' Hearts of oak ! ' our captains cried, when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the...shatter'd sail ; Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom. Out spoke the victor then As he hail'd them o'er the wave, ' Ye are brothers ! ye are men ! And we...
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Sea Songs and Ballads

Charles Dibdin - English poetry - 1863 - 366 pages
...between. "Hearts of oak!" our captains cried; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the...Again ! Again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feebler cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back ; Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then...
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Book of juvenile poetry, selected from the best authors [signed E.D.].

Book - 1864 - 396 pages
...between. "Hearts of oak!" our captain cried; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships. Like the hurricane eclipse Of the...Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail ; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the gloom. Out spoke the victor then, As he hailed...
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