 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...  Poetical Works - Page 28by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886Full view - About this book
 | 1866 - 234 pages
...Gainstield lay down upon the deck in thorough despair. Cecilia had only Luke Jones to comfort her. " And ever the fitful Gusts between A sound came from...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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 696 pages
...the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look'd soft as carded wool; But the cruel rocks they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from...the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath heb bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck.... | |
 | 1840 - 818 pages
...the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept, Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from...trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. Tk« breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 144 pages
...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...as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went... | |
 | 1842 - 498 pages
...tower, and a Viking wilh nothing on earth to employ himself with in a dull country, fell onliis spear. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. The rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...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...as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept, Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between, A sound came from...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look'd soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...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...as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went... | |
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