 At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows...  Language Reader - Page 110by Franklin Thomas Baker, George Rice Carpenter, Katherine Bowditch Owens, Jennie Freeborn Owens - 1906Full view - About this book
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 pages
...the form of a maiden fair, Lash'd close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair,...the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a-death... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 686 pages
...see the form of a maiden fair Lash'd close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea- weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 498 pages
...the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt-sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair,...the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. But we pass on to the longest poem of the collection, " The Children of the Lord's Supper," from the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 144 pages
...the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair,...the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and. rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a death... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 148 pages
...the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea- weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair,...the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a death... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...the form of a maiden fair, Lash'd close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like...the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a death... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair,...the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a death... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1879 - 442 pages
...maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. " The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tear* in her eyes ; And he saw her hair like the brown seaweed, On the billows fall and rise. " Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a death... | |
 | Marlborough coll, mus. soc - 1860 - 104 pages
...the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea- weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the... | |
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