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" Skaw, So that our foe we saw 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... "
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 27
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 519 pages
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 10

1842 - 650 pages
...triumphant laugh of his pursuers, when he resorted to the following bold, but not very humane manoeuvre. "And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping...iron keel Struck we her ribs of steel; Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water !" Hildebrand and his followers having been thus summarily disposed...
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Ballads and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 144 pages
...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,...keel Struck we her ribs of steel ; Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water ! " As with his wings aslant, Sails the fierce cormorant, Seeking...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 10

1842 - 620 pages
...triumphant laugh of his pursuers, when he resorted to the following bold, but not very humane manoeuvre. "And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping...iron keel Struck we her ribs of steel; Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water !" Hildebrand and his followers having been thus summarily disposed...
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Voices of the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...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,...keel Struck we her ribs of steel ; Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water ! "As with his wings aslant, Sails the fierce cormorant, Seeking...
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Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. I THE SKELETON IN ARMOUR. 47 " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast,...keel Struck we her ribs of steel ; Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water ! « As with his wings aslant, Sails the fierce cormorant, Seeking...
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Poems, Volume 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...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...keel Struck we her ribs of steel ; Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water ! " As with his wings aslant, Sails the fierce cormorant, Seeking...
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The Controversy Touching the Old Stone Mill, in the Town of Newport, Rhode ...

Charles Timothy Brooks - 1851 - 112 pages
...Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemea " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast,...keel, Struck we her ribs of steel ; Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water ! Sails the fierce cormorant, Seeking some rocky haunt, With...
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The Controversy Touching the Old Stone Mill, in the Town of Newport, Rhode ...

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,...
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Voices of the Night, and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 258 pages
...Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, AVith twenty horsemen. " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast,...Laugh as he hailed us. " And as to catch the gale Hound veered the flapping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail, Death without quarter ! Mid-ships...
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Poems, Volume 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 504 pages
...his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. 12 " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast,...keel Struck we her ribs of steel ; Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water ! " As with his wings aslant, Sails the fierce cormorant, Seeking...
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