George Alexander Stevens

“Elegant Extracts; or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry selected for the Improvement of Young Persons (London, 1809) bk. 4, sec. 58, pp. 926–7”

“Fill it up, about ship wheel it,    Close to our lips a brimmer join: Where's the tempest now, who feels it?    None — the danger's drown'd in wine.”

“One wide water all around us:    All above us one black sky; Different deaths at once surround us:    Hark! what means that dreadful cry?”

“Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer!    List, ye landsmen, all to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor    Sing the dangers of the sea.”