 And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles...  Poems - Page 186by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853Full view - About this book
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1868 - 298 pages
...whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between, A sound came from the land...dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored... | |
 | 1869 - 344 pages
...whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land...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.... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1869 - 150 pages
...whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land...billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. T11E OLD MAN'S COMFORTS, AND HOW HE GAINED THEM. 119 She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gust between A sound came from the land ; It was the sound...billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. Horatius keeps the Bridge. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool;... | |
 | 1869 - 506 pages
...stand at the head of a long dark list of losses caused or occasioned by us. " And ever the fitful gust between, A sound came from the land ; It was the sound...trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand." Yet the mission of our mighty life has been steadily kept in view, for though on the weather side of... | |
 | Oliver Optic - 1870 - 974 pages
...sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Toward the reef of Norman's \Уое. " And ever the fitful gusts between, A sound came from the land...hard sea-sand. " The breakers were right beneath her bowe ; She drifted a dreary wreck ; And a whooping billow swept the crew, Like icicles, from her deck."... | |
 | Hymns - 1871 - 330 pages
...whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's woe. And ever the fitful gusts between, A sound came from the land...was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping... | |
 | 1868 - 224 pages
...whistling sleet and Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On tliu rocks. ind the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her She drifted a dreary wreck,... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...whistling slcctand snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land;...deck. 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.... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 168 pages
...whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land...hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bow She drifted a dreary wreck ; And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from the deck. She... | |
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