 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. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this...  The Midland readers and home lesson books - Page 149by Henry Major - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 688 pages
...all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board, Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roar'd ! At daybreak, on the...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;... | |
 | 1840 - 818 pages
...all sheath'd in ice, With tb« 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...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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...sheathed in ice, With the 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...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;... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 144 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 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... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...all sheath'd in ice, AVith the 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...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;... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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