 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 144 pages
...When on the white sea-strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed...Laugh as he hailed us. " And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail, Death without quarter ! Mid-ships... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...When on the white sea-strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed...Laugh as he hailed us. " And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail, Death without quarter ! Mid-ships... | |
 | Lewis Gaylord Clark - 1845 - 262 pages
...When on the white sea-strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. • Then launched they to the blast • Bent like a reed...each mast — Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind fail'd us; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, 80 that our foe we saw Laugh as he hail... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. I THE SKELETON IN ARMOUR. 47 " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed...Laugh as he hailed us. " And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail. Death without quarter ! Mid-ships... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...When on the white sea-strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fust, When the wind failed us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we... | |
 | Charles Timothy Brooks - 1851 - 112 pages
...When on the white sea-strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemea " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed...Laugh as he hailed us. " And as to catch the gale Round, veered the flapping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail, Death without quarter ! Mid-ships,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...— When on the white sea-strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed...Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail, Death without... | |
 | Charles Timothy Brooks - 1851 - 110 pages
...launched they to the blart, Bent like a reed eaeh mast, Yet we were gaining fiu-t, When Cie wind i'aiied us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw,...Laugh as he hailed us, " And as to catch the gale Koimd veered the napping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail, Death without quarter 1 Mid-ships,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...FOSTER. U7 BALLADS, SONGS, AND SONNETS. XXVII. Round Tower at Newport. ButKEr FOSTKU. 103 XXVI II. " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast." BUCKET FOSTKU. lo 5 XXIX. " And in the forest's shade Our vows were plighted." BIKKKT FOSTKU. 10S XXX,... | |
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And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail, Death without quarter... 
