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" Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind failed us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw Laugh as he hailed us. " And as to catch the gale Round veered the... "
Poems - Page 178
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 17

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1841 - 564 pages
...Skeleton in Armor. He gain! upon hU purauere, when я heed-wind round the Cape of Skaw drivel him Lack. ' Then launched they to the blast — Bent like a reed each mast — Vet we were gaining fast, When the wind fail'd us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty...
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The Knickerbocker Sketch-book: A Library of Select Literature

Lewis Gaylord Clark - 1845 - 262 pages
...When on the white sea-strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. • Then launched they to the blast • Bent like a reed...each mast — Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind fail'd us; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, 80 that our foe we saw Laugh as he hail...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...— When on the white sea-strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed...Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail, Death without...
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The Controversy Touching the Old Stone Mill, in the Town of Newport, Rhode ...

Charles Timothy Brooks - 1851 - 110 pages
...launched they to the blart, Bent like a reed eaeh mast, Yet we were gaining fiu-t, When Cie wind i'aiied us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw,...Laugh as he hailed us, " And as to catch the gale Koimd veered the napping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail, Death without quarter 1 Mid-ships,...
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Voices of the Night, and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 258 pages
...FOSTER. U7 BALLADS, SONGS, AND SONNETS. XXVII. Round Tower at Newport. ButKEr FOSTKU. 103 XXVI II. " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast." BUCKET FOSTKU. lo 5 XXIX. " And in the forest's shade Our vows were plighted." BIKKKT FOSTKU. 10S XXX,...
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Poems, Volume 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 pages
...his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast3 Yet we were gaining fast. When the wind failed us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw5 So that our foe we saw Laugh as he hailed us0 '" And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping...
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Handbuch der nordamericanischen National-Literatur: Sammlung von ...

Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...Norsemen! When on (he white sea-strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. „Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, AVhen the wind failed us; And with a sudden flaw Game round the gusty Skaw, So that onr foe we saw...
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The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With prefatory notice

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 578 pages
...Among the Norsemen ! When on the white-sea strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, 334 " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed...gale Round veered the flapping sail, Death ! was the helmsman 's hail, Death without quarter ! Mid-ships with iron keel Struck we her ribs of steel Down...
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Hand-book of American literature, historical, biographical, and critical [by ...

Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 pages
...When on the white sea-strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast, Yet wo were gaining fast, When the wind failed us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 432 pages
...his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. " Then launched they to the blast, Bout like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind foiled us; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skuw, So that our foe we saw Laugh as he hailed...
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