William Falconer

William Falconer (21 February 1732 – December 1769) was a Scottish poet.

The Shipwreck (1762)

 * With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!
 * Introduction, lines 35-36.


 * Thou living ray of intellectual fire.
 * Canto I, line 104.


 * High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.
 * Canto I, 426.


 * The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in western clouds his parting ray.
 * Canto II, line 27.


 * 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.
 * Canto III, line 642.