 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 the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling...  Leisure Labors - Page 345by Joseph Beckham Cobb - 1858 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 270 pages
...soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. i 19. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the...she stove and sank, — Ho! ho! the breakers roared! 20. At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, 21. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears... | |
 | H.J. Infield - 1879 - 256 pages
...soft as carded wool; But the cruel rocks, they gored her sides Like the horns of an angry bull. 12. At day-break on the bleak sea-beach. A fisherman stood...of a maiden fair Lashed close to a drifting mast. 18. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the... | |
 | Thomas J. Livesey - 1879 - 152 pages
...the breakers roared ! 1 8. At daybreak on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, Surprise. To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. prolonged to imitate waves. ] Medium time. Sad— Pitiful. Lower pitch. Great earnestness. 19The salt... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 328 pages
...Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the...board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed... | |
 | Benjamin D. Hill, Winfield S. Nevins - 1880 - 172 pages
...Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds all sheathed In Ice, With the...by the board ; Like a vessel of glass she stove and sunk : — Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared. At day-break, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast,... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 408 pages
...rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in i;e, With the masts went by the board; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1881 - 754 pages
...her side Like the horns of an augry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the mast went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove...stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair Lashed to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw... | |
 | James Booth (head master of the Caledonian schools, Liverpool) - 1881 - 232 pages
...shrouds,3 all sheathed in ice, With the masts, went by the board ; 4 Like a vessel of glass she stove 5 and sank : ' Ho ! ho ! ' the breakers roared. At daybreak...of a maiden fair Lashed close 'to a drifting mast. i Breakers, waves dashing over rocks. 2 Carded wonl. Carding is the process of cleansing wool from... | |
 | Benjamin D. Hill - 1881 - 182 pages
...Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. At day-break, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman...close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen 011 her breast, The salt lears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the blllows^fall... | |
 | Charles Rathbone Low - 1881 - 374 pages
...Phantom Ship of Vanderdecken. Franklin's ship shared the fate of the ' Hesperus,' whose ' Battling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went...she stove and .sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared.' Such was the end of these hapless derelicts, whose timbers once echoed with the cheery voices of England's... | |
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