 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...  Songs of Nature - Page 861873 - 160 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 688 pages
...icicles from her 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...glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roar'd ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast To see the form of a maiden... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...icicles from her 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...board, Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho 1 ho ! the breakers roar'd ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast To see the... | |
 | 1840 - 818 pages
...icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy wavM Look'd soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheath'd in ice, With tb« masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 148 pages
...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 horns of...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she strove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood... | |
 | 1842 - 498 pages
...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 horns of an angry bull. The rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass,... | |
 | 1842 - 818 pages
...comparisons in this verse ; 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 hull. "To the River Charles, "is as sweet and pleasant a string of verses as we have read for many... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...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 horns of...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she strove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...icicles from her 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. Her rattling shrouds, all sheath'd in ice, AVith the masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...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 horns of...of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. And he saw her hair, like the brown sea- weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of... | |
 | Marlborough coll, mus. soc - 1860 - 104 pages
...whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the bark swept on Towards the reef of " Norman's Woe." Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the...board; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho 1 ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see... | |
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