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" The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed. On the billows fall and rise. r Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a death like this,... "
Poems, selected from the best editions - Page 120
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880
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The Evergreen, Volume 1

1840 - 818 pages
...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roar'd ! At day-break, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lash'd close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 8

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...masts went by the 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 form of a maiden fair Lash'd close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes;...
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Ballads and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 148 pages
...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...in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea- weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the...
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The Great Western Magazine and Anglo-American Journal of ..., Volume 1

1842 - 498 pages
...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...maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt-sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown...
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The Rover, Volume 2

Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roar'd ! At day-break, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lash'd close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes;...
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Programmes of evening concerts

Marlborough coll, mus. soc - 1860 - 106 pages
...masts, went by 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...in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea- weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the...
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The Guardian, Volume 30

1879 - 442 pages
...the dawn of day, And her hosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. * * * * " At daybreak on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood..." The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tear* in her eyes ; And he saw her hair like the brown seaweed, On the billows fall and rise. " Such...
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Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...carved in stone — " Voiea of the Night, p. 31. WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. ENGRAVED BY WH DOUGAL. •' At day-break, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman...of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast." Salladt, f. 53. MAIDENHOOD. ENGRAVED BY J. CHENEY. " Gazing with a timid glance, On the brooklet's...
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The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: The literati

Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850 - 642 pages
...beauty heightened into the sublime, by terror. But when we read, among other similar things, that f The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes, we feel, if not positive disgust, at least a chilling sense of the inappropriate. In the "Skeleton...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach A fisherman stood...in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea- weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the...
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