 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 pages
...voice I listen and yearn ; It is growing late and dark, And my boy does not return ! " Longfellow. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus,...month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm, With his pipe in his mouth ; And watched how the veering flaw 2 did blow The smoke now west, now south.... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1874 - 286 pages
...the skipper had taken his little daughter To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white...smoke now west, now south. Then up and spake an old sailor, Had sailed the Spanish main, " I pray thee put into yonder port, For I fear a hurricane. "... | |
 | Lucius Alonzo Butterfield - 1874 - 36 pages
...daughter To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day ; Her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in...smoke, now west, now south. Then up and spake an old sailor, Had sailed the Spanish main ; "I pray thee put into yonder port, For I fear the hurricane."... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pages
...of our national culture in European eyes, he is undoubtedly the most conspicuous of American poets. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus...veering flaw did blow The smoke now west, now south. i Then up and spake an old sailor, Had sailed the Spanish Main, " I pray thee put into yonder port,... | |
 | 1875 - 448 pages
...skipper had taken' his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white...smoke, now west, now south. ' Then up and spake an old sailor Had sailed the Spanish Main, "I pray thee, put into yonder port, For I fear a hurricane. "Last... | |
 | Hymns - 1875 - 336 pages
...the skipper had ta'en his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white...veering flaw did blow The smoke now west, now south. THE WRECK OF THE "HESPERUS." '35 Then up and spake an old sailor, Had sailed the Spanish Main, " I... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. ' Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white...month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm, With his pipe in his mouth, And watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now west, now south.... | |
 | T. W. M. - 1876 - 264 pages
...bright o'erhead ; Nothing in Nature's aspect intimated That a great man was dead. ,.*'. e,j3T wag t^e schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And...smoke now west, now south. Then up and spake an old sailor, Had sailed the Spanish main : * " I pray thee, put into yonder port, For I fear a hurricane.... | |
 | 1876 - 216 pages
...the skipper had taken his little daughter To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white...smoke now west, now south. Then up and spake an old sailor, Had sailed to the Spanish Main : " I pray thee put into yonder port, For I fear a hurricane.... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 pages
...skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy -flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white...smoke now west, now south. Then up and spake an old sailor, Had sailed the Spanish Main, " I pray thee put into yonder port, " Last night the moon had... | |
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THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the... 
