 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1877 - 326 pages
...sank into the sea ! Unknown * 14* THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sail'd 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 hawthorn buds, That ope in... | |
 | Lays, Tuneful lays - 1877 - 96 pages
...fountain ! Let my heart be Fresh, changeful, constant, Upward like thee ! THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had ta'en his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax, Her cheeks like... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1877 - 80 pages
...Legend; Hiawatha; The Courtship of Miles Standish; By the Fireside, etc. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. It was the schooner ' Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper J had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 238 pages
...warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland ! skoal! — Thus the tale ended. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. T was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry...as the hawthorn buds That ope in the month of May. 1 In Scandinavia this is the customary salutation when drinking a health. I have slightly changed the... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1920 - 264 pages
...To bear him company. 2. Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, /iid her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. 3. The skipper, he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth, And he watched how the veering... | |
 | 1842 - 64 pages
...and yet we must say, we have rarely or never in " these latter days," seen it surpassed in kind: " It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry...as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. " Down came the storm, and smote amain, The vessel in its strength; She shuddered and pawed, like a... | |
 | Richard Selzer - 1976 - 232 pages
...brought his little daughter to keep him company on the voyage. Her eyes were blue "as fairy-flax," her bosom white "as the hawthorn buds that ope in the month of May." With what commingled terror and grief did we see him lifeless and lashed to the helm, all stiff and... | |
 | Donald Hall - 1985 - 266 pages
...wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought. The Wreck of the Hesperus It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry...had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. The skipper he stood beside... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought! (1. 43-48) The Wreck of the Hesperus 51 no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering...— Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's (1. 1 —4) 52 At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a... | |
 | Christina Stead - 1965 - 580 pages
...repeating with great affection, Blue were her eyes as the /airy flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, Her bosom white as the hawthorn buds That ope in the month of May. She blushed to the roots of her hair and the flush crept downwards to stain the hawthorn. Her grandfather... | |
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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. 
