 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 Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Seite 112von Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 400 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Kensington series - 1872 - 232 Seiten
...billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy wavea Look'd soft as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry bull. At daybreak, on a bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair Lash'd... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 324 Seiten
...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...fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 168 Seiten
...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...horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheath ed in ice, With the masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sunk ; Ho... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - 1873 - 344 Seiten
...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...But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the home of an angry .bull. ' Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts, went by the board... | |
 | 1873 - 296 Seiten
...bows : She drifted a dreaiy 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 tho cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 Seiten
...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...by the board ; ' Like a vessel of glass, she stove 2 and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak on the black sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast,... | |
 | Lucius Alonzo Butterfield - 1874 - 36 Seiten
...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...as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her sides Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1874 - 458 Seiten
...struck, where the white and fleecy waves, Look'd soft as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks they gor'd her side, Like the horns of an angry bull ! Her rattling shrouds, all sheath 'd in ice, With the masts, went by the board, Like a vessel of glass, she strove and sank !... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 Seiten
...whooping billow swept the crew , Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and flcecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks,...fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair CATHCART'8 READER. The salt sea was frozen on her bveast The salt tears in her eyes • And he saw... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 268 Seiten
...bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icioles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked...glass, she stove and sank ; Ho ! ho ! the breakers roar'd ! At day-break on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden... | |
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