 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 - Page 112by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 688 pages
...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...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
...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...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
...billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy wavM 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 tb« masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 144 pages
...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...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
...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. The rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass,... | |
 | 1842 - 818 pages
...ballad is vivid nd touching in the highest degree. How striking are the comparisons in this verse ; She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked...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
...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...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
...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, AVith the masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1850 - 312 pages
...expect to be in this life. And this ends part the second of my story. PART III. CHAPTER I. She strtick where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded...they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry bull. LONGFELLOW. THE captain paced the deck, looking up from time to time anxiously at the threatening sky.... | |
 | 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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