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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... "
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 31
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 305 pages
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The World of fashion and continental feuilletons [afterw.] The Ladies ...

1866 - 234 pages
...sound came from the land. It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea sand : The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck !" Yes : the fate of the gallant ship was sealed. The mighty efforts of captain and brave crew were...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 8

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 688 pages
...snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It was the sound...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....
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The Evergreen, Volume 1

1840 - 818 pages
...came from the land; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. TkĀ« breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...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...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 8

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It was the sound...the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath heb bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck....
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Ballads and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 148 pages
...Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It was the sound...carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by...
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The Great Western Magazine and Anglo-American Journal of ..., Volume 1

1842 - 498 pages
...tower, and a Viking wilh nothing on earth to employ himself with in a dull country, fell onliis spear. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...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...
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Voices of the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It was the sound...carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by...
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The Rover, Volume 2

Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept, Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between, A sound came from the land ; It was the sound...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....
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Poems, Volume 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It was the sound...carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by...
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Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It was the sound...carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by...
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