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
| 1866 - 234 pages
...lay down upon the deck in thorough despair. Cecilia had only Luke Jones to comfort her. " And ever the fitful Gusts between A sound came from the land....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... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 696 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.... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 686 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...the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath heb bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck.... | |
| New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 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;...trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. Tk« breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept... | |
| Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 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.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 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... | |
| Periodicals - 1851 - 724 pages
...ruef of Norman's Woe, "And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; • > II »a* the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. •Tbe breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, Лтк! a whooping billow... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound eame from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling...white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, lint the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. 1 ler rattling shrouds,... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound cume from the land; It was tlie sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the...struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft äs carded wool, But the cruel rocks, thoy gored her side, Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling... | |
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