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 - Página 3311851Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 páginas
...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...billow swept the crew, Like icicles, from her deck. 365 She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks, they... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 páginas
...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...billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. t She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 páginas
...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...breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreury wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 páginas
...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... | |
| Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 páginas
...swept Tow'rds 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...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look soft as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
| Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 páginas
...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...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look'd soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks they gored her sides Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1862 - 548 páginas
...ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling serf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were...white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, Bnt the cruel rocks, they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all... | |
| 1862 - 600 páginas
...Longfellow's beautiful ballad " The Wreck of the Hesperus," which gives us a picture of a similar tragedy. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...a whooping billow swept the crew Like Icicles from h«r deck. CELESTIAL VAGRANTS. 27 She struck whero the white and fleecy wares Looked soft as carded... | |
| Helen Somerset - 1862 - 216 páginas
...she shook off her painful thoughts to wave an adieu to their watching friends on shore. CHAPTER II. " The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept her crew Like icicles from the deck. " She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded... | |
| Louisa Stewart - 1862 - 400 páginas
...to Seaton Bay. CHAPTER CHAPTER III. ' 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.' LONGFELLOW. T was on a bright, clear afternoon of May that Eugene Mauden first saw the blue... | |
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