 The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping 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 Children's Garland from the Best Poets - Seite 80herausgegeben von - 1882 - 344 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Book - 1859 - 334 Seiten
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's woe. And ever the fitful gusts...was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 514 Seiten
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 506 Seiten
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...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, John Gilbert - 1860 - 448 Seiten
...dark and dmir. Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; ft was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 Seiten
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, * Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. t She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 Seiten
...dark and drear. Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreury wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 Seiten
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe.* And ever, the fitful gusts...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... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 Seiten
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Tow'rds the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look soft as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
 | Louisa Stewart - 1862 - 400 Seiten
...Mayland, and took the first early train to London, on his way to Seaton Bay. CHAPTER CHAPTER III. ' And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from...sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea sand.' LONGFELLOW. T was on a bright, clear afternoon of May that Eugene Mauden first saw the blue... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1862 - 548 Seiten
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling serf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary... | |
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