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" Last night, the moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see ! " The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he. "
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 110
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 400 pages
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 10

1842 - 650 pages
...the Ancient Mariner found so hard to be borne. In " The Wreck of the Hesperus," the ship — " That shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length," was evidently built of the same timber with that, " Which, like a pawing horse, let go, Then made a...
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'., Volume 38

John William Carleton - 1857 - 712 pages
...Hood's Bay, where the waves ran unusually high, and were very threatening : at which the little vessel " Shuddered and paused like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length." On nearing Scarborough a large steamer passed them, making directly for the harbour. Charley therefore...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 8

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...to-night no moon we see ! " The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laugh'd he. Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the...The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows froth'd like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in its strength ; She shudder'd...
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The Evergreen, Volume 1

1840 - 818 pages
...to-night no moon we see ' The Skipper, he blew a whiff from hi« pipe, And a scornful laugh laugh'd be. Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the North-east; The t now fell hissing in the brine, And the billows froth 'd like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 19

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1842 - 646 pages
...his pipe in his mouth;' although it may serve as a foil to such graphic lines as the following : 1 Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the Northeast ; The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the bdlova frothed like yctut.' The skipper's little daughter bears him company, who trembles at the gale...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 10

1842 - 620 pages
...the Ancient Mariner found so hard to be borne. In " The Wreck of the Hesperus," the ship — " That shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length," was evidently built of the same timber with that, " Which, like a pawing horse, let go, Then made a...
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The Rover, Volume 2

Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...And to-night no moon we see! The Skipper, he blew a whifi from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laugh'd he. Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the...The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows froth'd like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain, The vessel in Its strength ; She shudder'd...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 13

1851 - 724 pages
...moon had a golden ring, Ami to-night no moon we see !' The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pijH.1, And a scornful laugh laughed he. " Colder and louder...strength ; She shuddered and paused, like a frighted s'.oo i. : Then leaped her cable's length. "'Come hither! come hither ! my little daughter, And do...
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Poems, Volume 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 504 pages
...moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see ! " The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he. Colder and louder...tremble so ; For I can weather the roughest gale, X^at ever wind did blow." He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat Against the stinging blast ; He...
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Poems, Volume 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 pages
...moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see ! " The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he. Colder and louder...the Northeast ; The snow fell hissing in the brine, Down came the storm, and smote amain, The vessel in its strength ; She shuddered and paused, like a...
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