 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...  Major's New code ... readers - Page 149by Henry Major - 1875Full view - About this book
 | George Ernest Bulger - 1864 - 350 pages
...33 CHAPTER IV. THE CRUISE OF 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... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1865 - 166 pages
...breakers were right beneath her boWB, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew % She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked...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
...right heneath her hows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping hillow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 710 pages
...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...glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At day-break, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...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...glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden... | |
 | Pen and pencil pictures - 1866 - 176 pages
...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...glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden... | |
 | Words - 1866 - 368 pages
...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...glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At day-break, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored...glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At day-break, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 236 pages
...breakers right ahead She drifted, a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy...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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...gay and the distressful call, and with unsparing bounty fills them all. j. THOMSON 868 THE SHIPWRECK HER rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice with the...of glass she stove and sank; ho! ho! the breakers roared. At day-break on the bleak sea-beach a fisherman stood aghast, to see the form of a maiden fair... | |
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