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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)
Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 44)
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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)
Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 52)
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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
Source: Shipwreck (canto III, l. 642)
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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
Source: Wreck of the Hesperus (st. 15)
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Each man makes his own shipwreck.
[Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.]
Author: Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
Source: Pharsalia (I, 499)
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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
Source: The Storm
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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
Source: Mysteries of Udolpho--Shipwreck
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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
Source: The Tempest (Prospero at I, ii)
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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
Source: The Tempest (Miranda at I, ii)
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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
Source: Heartbreak House (at III)
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He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.
[Lat., Inprobe Neptunum accusat, qui iterum naufragium facit.]
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Sententiae (l. 264)
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Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood.
[Lat., Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.]
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
Source: The Aeneid (I, 118)
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Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast
False fires, that others may be lost.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: To the Lady Fleming
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