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
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 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...icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and flcecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of... | |
| Henry Major - 1875 - 268 páginas
...came from the land ;— It was the sound of the trampling sttrf On the rocks and the hard sea sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icioles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool ; But... | |
| 1875 - 448 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... | |
| 1876 - 216 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 and the hard sea sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow... | |
| George Henry Procter - 1876 - 98 páginas
...disaster which tradition asserts gave it its name, and whence between the fitful gusts may still be heard "the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea sand;" past Thacher's Island, where Anthony Thacher and his good-wife were so strangely reunited... | |
| Lays, Tuneful lays - 1877 - 96 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...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... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1877 - 326 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...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 - 1877 - 400 páginas
...swei,t 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...drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the cre^f Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded... | |
| William Davis (B.A.) - 1877 - 80 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 and the hard sea-sand. The breakers 2 were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like... | |
| John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 242 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...from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy wavos Looked soft as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Her rattling shrouds, all... | |
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