Crossword-Solution: PRORE 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

But how returned he? Say; this soul of fire, This proud barbarian, whose impatient ire Chastised the winds that disobeyed his nod With stripes ne'er suffered by the Æolian god-- But how returned he? say; his navy lost, In a small bark he fled the hostile coast, And, urged by terror, drove his laboring prore Through floating carcasses and fields of gore.

Stoddard in "The South:" "Some island, on the purple plain Of Polynesian main, Where never yet adventurer's prore Lay rocking near its coral shore: A tropic mystery, which the enamored deep Folds, as a beauty in a charméd sleep.

There is a second, but inferior rendering: Shall sit presiding on the painted prore, And steer thy ship to this forsaken shore.

Now, to the fleet the joyful herald bends, With earnest pace the Heav'n-sent friend attends: Now, down the river's sweepy stream they glide, And now, their pinnace cuts the briny tide: The Moor, with transport sparkling in his eyes, The well-known make of GAMA'S navy spies, The bending bowsprit, and the mast so tall, The sides black, frowning as a castle wall, The high-tower'd stern, the lordly nodding prore, And the broad standard slowly waving o'er The anchor's moony[461] fangs.

Far briefer now the way, and open more 145 To heaven, than those his whilom steps had won; And sudden, lo! his galley's brazen prore Beams from the greenwood burnish'd in the sun; Up from the sward his watchful cruisers spring, And loud-lipp'd welcome girds with joy the King.