William Falconer Quotes

“With living colours give my verse to glow:
The sad memorial of a tale of woe!”

William Falconer

Introduction, lines 35-36.
The Shipwreck (1762)

“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.”

William Falconer

Canto III, line 642.
The Shipwreck (1762)

“High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.”

William Falconer

Canto I, 426.
The Shipwreck (1762)

“Thou living ray of intellectual fire.”

William Falconer

Canto I, line 104.
The Shipwreck (1762)

“The sacred lamp of day
Now dipt in western clouds his parting ray.”

William Falconer

Canto II, line 27.
The Shipwreck (1762)