The Poetical Works of William Falconer (1836)
by William Falconer (9781458931245)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THIRD CANTO: THE SCENE 1S EXTENDED FROM THAT PART OF THE ARCH1PELAGO WH1CH LIES TEN M1LES TO THE NORTHWARD OF FALCONEUA, TO CAPE COLONNA JN ATT1CA. THE TlME ABOUT SEVEN HOURS J FROM ONE, UNT1L ElGHT IN THE MORNlNG. ARGUMENT. I. The beneficial influence of poetry in the civilization of mankind. Diffidence of the author. II. Wreck of the mizen-mast cleared away. Ship put before the wind?- labours much. Different stations of the officers. Appearance of the island of Falconera. III. Excursion to the adjacent nations of Greece renowned in antiquity. Athens. Socrates, Plato, Aristides. Solon. Corinth ?its architecture. Sparta. Leonidas. Invasion by Xerxes. Lycurgus. Epaminondas. Present state of the Spartans. Arcadia. Former happiness, and fertility. Its present distress the effect of slavery. Ithaca. Ulysses and Penelope. Argos and Mycaene. Agamemnon. Macronisi. Lemnos. Vulcan. Delos. Apollo and Diana. Troy. Sestos. Leander and Hero. Del- phos. Temple of Apollo. Parnassus. The muses. IV. Subject resumed. Address to the spirits of the storm. A tempest, accompanied with rain, hail, and meteors. Darkness of the night, lightning and thunder. Daybreak. St. George's cliffs open upon them. The ship, in great danger, passes the island of St. George. V. Land of Athens appears. Helmsman struck blind by lightning. Ship laid broadside to the shore. Bowsprit, foremast, and maintop-mast carried away. Albert, Hod- monil, Arion, and Palemon strive to save themselves on the wreck of the foremast. The ship parts asunder. Death of Albert and Rodmond. Arion reaches the shore. Finds Palemon expiring on the beach. His dying address to Arion, who is led away by the humane natives. THE SHIPWRECK. CANTO III. I. When in a barbarous age, with blood defiled, The human savage roam'd the ...

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