 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
 | Lays, Tuneful lays - 1877 - 96 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... | |
 | Carl Webber, Winfield S. Nevins - 1877 - 354 Seiten
...vessel swept Tow'rda the reef of Norman's Woe. Her rattling shrouds all sheathed in ice, With the mnets went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho 1 ho 1 the breakers roared. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 126 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...ho ! the breakers roared. At daybreak, on the bleak sea. beach A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair Lashed close to a drifting mast.... | |
 | W. and R. Chambers (ltd.) - 1878 - 174 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 and salik, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach A fisherman stood aghast,... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 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...they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Пег rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the mast went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass,... | |
 | Orton Lowe - 1914 - 344 Seiten
...her bows, She drifted a weary 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 Wadsworth Longfellow - 1914 - 734 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...she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared I At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair,... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 372 Seiten
...bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. 20 She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked...angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, 25 With the mast went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers... | |
 | Delbert Moyer Staley - 1914 - 378 Seiten
...billow swept the crew like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves look'd soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored...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 stove and sank. Ho!... | |
 | Ina Capitola Emery - 1915 - 520 Seiten
...dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. 21. The ship struck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked...carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side, Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the mast went by the board; Like a vessel of glass,... | |
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