Quote #6
Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock, 'Oh Christ! It is the Inchcape Rock!'
More from Robert Southey
- And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
- Will ye believe The wonders of the ocean? how its shoals Sprang from the wave, like flashing light; .. took wing, And, twinkling with a sil…
- How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heav…
- And last of all an Admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name,- A name which you all know by sight very well, But which no one can s…
- 'In my days of youth, I remembered my God, And he hath not forgotten my age.'
- Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!
- 'You are old, Father William.' the young man cried, 'The few locks which are left you are grey; You are hale, Father William-a hearty old m…
- The laws are with us, and God on our side.