 Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds That ope in the month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth, And he watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, now South. Then up...  The Band of Hope Treasury - Page 471868Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 pages
...in order to preserve the correct pronuneiation. 103 THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the sehooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little danghter, To bear him company. 109 Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of... | |
 | Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 pages
...And from the sky serene and far, A voice fell like a falling star, Excelsior ! LONGFELLOW. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That...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... | |
 | Book - 1859 - 334 pages
...guard us ; He, through His eternal might, Give us all a blessed night." THE WKECK OF THE "HESPEKUS." IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry...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 the... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1859 - 356 pages
...who weeps, By Love's untimely tomb alone. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. LONGFELLOW'S Ballad, condensed. IT was the schooner Hesperus That sailed the wintry...had taken his little daughter To bear him company. Colder and colder blew the wind, A gale from the north-east ; The snow fell hissing in the brine, And... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 514 pages
...slightly changed the orthography of the word, in order to preserve the correct pronunciation. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That...daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy -flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, -\ THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. 183 The skipper he stood... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 pages
...shore loud moans the sea. But none, alas ! shall mourn for me ! RICHARD HENRY WILDE. 862 THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus That...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 the... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...—the atmosphere of poetry, — which illuminates his page as the sunshine does the natural landscape. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipp3r had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax, Her... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1862 - 548 pages
...Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland ! skoal.i"* — Thus the tale ended. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That...daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the lairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 pages
...weave ; 'Tis better to work than live idle, 'Tis better to sing than grieve. Bwry Cornwall. THE WRECK OF THE "HESPERUS." IT was the schooner Hesperus That...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... | |
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