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SHIPWRECK.

1 'Tis solemn midnight! On this lonely steep,
2 Beneath this watch-tow'r's desolated wall,
3 Where mystic shapes the wanderer appal,
4 I rest; and view below the desert deep.
5 As through tempestuous clouds the moon's cold light
6 Gleams on the wave. Viewless, the winds of night
7 With loud mysterious force the billows sweep,
8 And sullen roar the surges far below.
9 In the still pauses of the gust I hear
10 The voice of spirits, rising sweet and slow,
11 And oft among the clouds their forms appear.
12 But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale
13 And in the distant ray what glimmering sail
14 Bends to the storm? — Now sinks the note of fear!
15 Ah! wretched mariners! no more shall day
16 Unclose his cheering eye to light you on your way!

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Title (in Source Edition): SHIPWRECK.
Author: Ann Radcliffe (née Ward)
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Genres: narrative verse

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Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. The Poems of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe. London: printed by and for J. Smith, Princes Street, 1816, p. 87. 118p. [Radcliffe's poems only, pp. 1-95] (Page images digitized from a copy held at the National Library of the Netherlands.)

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