 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
 | 1862 - 600 Seiten
...Longfellow's beautiful ballad " The Wreck of the Hesperus," which gives us a picture of a similar tragedy. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...a whooping billow swept the crew Like Icicles from h«r deck. CELESTIAL VAGRANTS. 27 She struck whero the white and fleecy wares Looked soft as carded... | |
 | Helen Somerset - 1862 - 216 Seiten
...she shook off her painful thoughts to wave an adieu to their watching friends on shore. CHAPTER II. " The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept her crew Like icicles from the deck. " She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded... | |
 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 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.... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 Seiten
...maiden clasp'd her hands and pray'd That saved she might be; And she thought of Christ who still'd the waves On the Lake of Galilee. And fast through...trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look'd soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks they gored... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 438 Seiten
...Lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from...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.... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1863 - 234 Seiten
...sheeted ghost, the vessel swept T'wards the reef of Norman's woe. To the rocks and breakers right ahead 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.... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 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 between A sound came from the land 5 It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 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 lake the horns of an angry bull... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 464 Seiten
...sleet and snow, -1 swept irmap's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the laud ; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks...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.... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 396 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... | |
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