 The breakers were right beneath her bows, 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...  Poems - Page 39by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 688 pages
...billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look'd soft as carded wool; But the cruel rocks they gored...glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roar'd ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast To see the form of a maiden... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 686 pages
...billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look'd soft as carded wool; But the cruel rocks they gored...board, Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho 1 ho ! the breakers roar'd ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast To see the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 144 pages
...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,...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she strove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 148 pages
...shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she strove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak,...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...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,...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she strove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...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,...of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. And he saw her hair, like the brown sea- weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1879 - 442 pages
...the dawn of day, And her hosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. * * * * " At daybreak on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood...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... | |
 | Marlborough coll, mus. soc - 1860 - 104 pages
...whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the bark swept on Towards the reef of " Norman's Woe." Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the...board; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho 1 ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...drifted a 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,...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... | |
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