 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...  The American Whig Review - Page 3311851Full view - About this book
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1872 - 396 pages
...Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. 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. IN THE BROAD AND FIERY STREET !" — LONGFELLOW. 176 THE WRECK OF THE HESPER US. T The breakers were... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - Elocution - 1872 - 460 pages
...swept, Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. 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. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks,... | |
 | American poetry - 1873 - 296 pages
...Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever, the fitful gusts between, A sound came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks...breakers were right beneath her bows : She drifted a dreaiy wreck ; And a whooping billow swept the crew, Like icicles, from her deck. She struck where... | |
 | Henry C. Leonard - Ann, Cape (Mass.) - 1873 - 214 pages
...swept, Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. 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. Tlie breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 168 pages
...Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. 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... | |
 | Lucius Alonzo Butterfield - 1874 - 36 pages
...swept Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks...as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her sides Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1874 - 458 pages
...swept Towards the reef of Norman's wo. And ever, the fitful gusts between, A souud came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks...deck ! She struck, where the white and fleecy waves, Look'd soft as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks they gor'd her side, Like the horns of an angry bull... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 384 pages
...Woe. ring, BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS. 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 breakerswere right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew... | |
 | Hymns - 1875 - 336 pages
...swept T'wards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks...as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks they gored her sides, Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And over, the fitful gusts between, A sound came from the land : It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks...where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wo<pl, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns cf an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds,... | |
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