| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 Seiten
...sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
| Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1855 - 716 Seiten
...PART ÎII. CHAPTER I. She itruck where the while and fleecy waves Looked »oft u carded wool ; Bat the cruel rocks they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry bull. LOXOFILLOW. THE captain paced the deck, looking up from time to time anxiously at the threatening sky.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 502 Seiten
...billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass,... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 Seiten
...sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 432 Seiten
...sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. Ill She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 Seiten
...sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers wore right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow...from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy vraves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry... | |
| Joseph Beckham Cobb - 1858 - 422 Seiten
...sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. " The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow...deck. " She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
| afterwards AYLMER FENTON (I. D.), Helen Somerset - 1858 - 336 Seiten
...billow swept her crew Like icicles from the deck. " She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks, they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry bull." LONOFELLOW. HELEN'S presentiment was soon to be realized, though the gentle winds and unruffled sea,... | |
| Joseph Beckham Cobb - 1858 - 424 Seiten
...billow swept the crew, Like icicles, from her deck. " She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry*bulL " Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board ; Like a vessel... | |
| Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 Seiten
...sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows ; She drifted a dreary wreck ; And a whooping...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks, they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
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