 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
 | Penny readings - 1867 - 270 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 surr On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 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.... | |
 | Arthur Mangin - 1868 - 480 Seiten
...finds himself alone in the presence of God and the immensity ! " CHAPTER V. THE CONVULSIONS OF OCEAN. " 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."... | |
 | Golden gift - 1868 - 168 Seiten
...whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's W.oc. 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.... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1868 - 298 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...dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored... | |
 | Floyd Baker Wilson - 1869 - 208 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.... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1869 - 150 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. T11E OLD MAN'S COMFORTS, AND HOW HE GAINED THEM. 119 She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 Seiten
...snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gust between A sound came from the land ; It was the sound...billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. Horatius keeps the Bridge. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool;... | |
 | 1869 - 506 Seiten
...stand at the head of a long dark list of losses caused or occasioned by us. " And ever the fitful gust between, A sound came from the land ; It was the sound...trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand." Yet the mission of our mighty life has been steadily kept in view, for though on the weather side of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 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.... | |
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