"Naufragium sibi quisque facit."

"It was a touching answer of a Christian sailor, when asked why he remained so calm in a fearful storm, when the sea s…"

"Some hoisted out the boats, and there was one That begged Pedrillo for an absolution, Who told him to be damn'd,—in h…"

"Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell— Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave,— Then some leap'd ov…"

"Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock; Down on the vale of death, with dism…"

"And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel …"

"A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigged, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats Instinctively have quit it."

"Through the black night and driving rain A ship is struggling, all in vain, To live upon the stormy main;— Miserere D…"

"But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail Bends to the storm?—Now…"

"Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on…"