 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...  Songs of Nature - Page 861873 - 160 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 pages
...where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks they gored her sides Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds...stove and sank — Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared. THE ANCIENT MARINER. 153 At day break on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 pages
...cruel rocks they gored her sides Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds all sheath'd in ice, "With the masts went by the board ; Like a...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 of a maiden fair... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1863 - 234 pages
...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 horns of an angry bull. At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair Lashed... | |
 | George Ernest Bulger - 1864 - 350 pages
...THE "SILVER STAR." " She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look soft as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks, they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry bull." LONGFELLOW — The Wreck of the Hesperus. A GENTLE wind sprang up next morning with the sun, and in... | |
 | George Watson (publisher.) - 1864 - 238 pages
...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 horns of an angry bull. At daybreak on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1865 - 166 pages
...billow swept the crew % She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side, Like the horns of...the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sant, Ho 1 ho I the breakers roared. At day-break, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 pages
...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 horns of an angry hull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went hy the hoard ; Like a vessel of... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...icicles, from her 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. Her rattling shrouds, all sheath'd in ice, With the masts, went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank—... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll) - 1866 - 142 pages
...icicles from her 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 At daybreak, on a bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair The salt... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 236 pages
...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 horns of an angry bull. At daybreak on the bleak sea-beach, " A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed... | |
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