 | 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...Like a vessel 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 148 pages
...rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles...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
...dull country, fell onliis spear. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles...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
...rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles...Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles...Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she strove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At day-break on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood... | |
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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... 
